Adding Bodies

You can add a body to another body. Adding a body to another one means uniting them via a Boolean operation.

Related Topics
About Boolean Operations
About Bodies
  • This is your initial data: the Add 3D shape is composed of three bodies. Each body includes a pad. These pads are therefore independent. To add Body.1 to Part Body, select Body.1.



Tip: Adding a set of bodies (multi-selected via the Ctrl key) is possible. This capability will increase your productivity.

  1. Click Add . The Add dialog box that appears displays the name of the selected body, the Part Body and the feature after which the Add feature is to be added. By default, the application proposes to add the selected body to Part Body. For the purpose of our scenario, we keep this location. Note however that you could add Body.1 to Body.2 one just by selecting Body.2.

  2. Click OK. The specification tree and Part Body now looks like this:



    You will note that:

    • the material common to Part Body and Body.1 has been unified
    • both pads keep their original colors.

  3. Double-click Add.1 to edit the Boolean operation. The Add dialog box appears.

  4. Select Body.2 from the specification tree or from the geometry area. PartBody and Body.2 are associated. The material common to Part Body and Body.2 is retrieved.