Rip PropertyManager
Creates a rip feature:
Along selected internal or external model edges
From linear sketch entities
By combining model edges and single linear sketch
entities
A rip feature is commonly used to create sheet metal parts, but you
can add a rip feature to any part.
To create a rip feature:
Create a part of uniform thickness with adjacent
planar faces that form one or more linear edges or a chain of linear edges. Sketch single, linear entities across planar faces,
starting and ending at the vertices. |
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Click Rip
 (Sheet Metal toolbar) or Insert,
Sheet Metal, Rip. In the PropertyManager, under Rip
Parameters:
To insert a rip in
only one direction,
click the name of the edge listed under Edges
to Rip  , and click Change
Direction.
- or -
Click the preview arrows. |
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 By default, rips are inserted in both directions.
Each time you click Change Direction,
the rip direction sequences from one direction, to the other direction,
and then back to both directions.
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To change the gap distance, type a value for Rip Gap  . Click  . |
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