More about Solid Combines

Two or more extruded profiles can be intersected to create a solid combine. This topic provides you with the information you need to create solid combines.

The following is discussed:

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Creating Solid Combines

Combine Definition Dialox Box

This section describes the various options available in the Combine Definition dialog box to create a solid combine.

Profile

The components you can select are:


  • Sketches.
    Warning: A sketch containing more than one domains cannot be selected for creating solid combine features.
  • Surfaces.
  • 3D planar curves.
  • Sketches sub-elements: For this, use the Go to Profile definition contextual command. For more information, see Using the Sub-Elements of a Sketch.

To change the components, you can:

  • Click Profile and select another sketch in the geometry or in the specification tree.
  • Use any of these creation contextual commands available from the Profile box:
    • Insert Wireframe > Create Sketch: Opens the Sketcher workbench after selecting any plane, and lets you sketch the profile you need as explained in the Sketcher User's Guide.

    • Insert Surfaces > Create Fill: Creates fill surfaces between the boundary segments. For more information, see Generative Shape Design User's Guide: Creating Surfaces: Creating Fill Surfaces.

    • Insert Operations > Create Join: Joins surfaces or curves. For more information, see Generative Shape Design User's Guide: Performing Operations on Shape Geometry: Joining Surfaces or Curves.
    • Insert Operations > Create Extract: Generates separate elements from non-connex sub-elements. For more information, see Generative Shape Design User's Guide: Performing Operations on Shape Geometry: Extracting Geometry: Extracting Elements.

Normal to Profile

There are two types of directions you can specify to compute the intersection. For the first and the second components, you can choose:

  • Normal to profile: Default option.
  • Direction: Another direction indicated by a geometrical element you select.