Creating a Sew Surface

Sewing is a Boolean operation combining a surface with a volume. You can add or remove material by modifying the surface of the volume.

Before you begin: Create a surface to be sewn on a volume.
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Creating Volumes

  1. Click Sew Surface .

    The Sew Surface Definition dialog box appears.

  2. Select the sewing Volume.

  3. Select the Object to sew onto the volume.



  4. Select the Simplify geometry check box (it is selected by default).

    Using this option, if in the resulting volume there are connected faces defined on the same geometric support (faces separated by smooth edges), these faces will be merged into one single face.

    Arrows appear indicating the side where material will be added or kept. Note that clicking an arrow reverses the given direction. The arrows must point towards the volume.



  5. Click OK.

    The surface is sewn onto the volume. You may notice that the bottom of the volume is made of one single face.



    This element (identified as SewSurface.xxx) is added to the specification tree.

  6. Double-click the sew surface in the specification tree to edit it and clear Simplify geometry.

  7. Click OK.

    The bottom of the volume is made of three connected faces. The smooth edges resulting from the sewing appear because no topological simplification has been performed.



    For more information, refer to Part Design User's Guide : Sewing Surfaces.