Removing Volumes

You can remove a volume from another volume.

Before you begin: Create a 3D shape containing 2 geometrical sets or ordered geometrical sets, with a volume in each set.

This is your initial data, the Remove representation is composed of two geometrical sets:

Related Topics
Creating Volumes

  1. Click Remove from the Volumes operations sub-toolbar.

    The Remove dialog box opens.

  2. Select the volume to remove (CloseSurface.1) in the Base object field.

  3. Select the volume from which it is removed (CloseSurface.2) in the Removed operand field.

  4. Select a destination body after which the removed volume will be located.

    If the geometrical feature set is current, the After field is valuated with the current body and will be located after its last feature.

  5. Click Preview to visualize the removed volume.

  6. Click OK.

    The operation (identified as Remove.xxx) is added to the specification tree. The specification tree and the Remove part now look like this:

    Important: You can edit a Remove feature and modify the destination volume. To do so, simply double-click the feature in the specification tree and select a new volume in the Removed operand field.
    Warning:
    • Multi-selection is not possible.
    • Avoid using input elements that are tangent to each other since this may result in geometric instabilities in the tangency zone.