Replace Face
You can replace faces in a surface or solid body with new surface bodies
using the Replace Face tool (Surfaces toolbar). The replacement surface body does
not need to have the same boundaries as the old faces. When you replace
a face, adjacent faces in the original body automatically extend and trim
to the replacement surface body, and the new face trims. See the examples
below for information about how to use the Replace
Face tool.
Replace Face allows you to do the following:
Replace a single face or set of connected faces
with a surface body.
Replace more than one set of connected faces with
the same number of surface bodies in a single operation.
You must list the face sets for Target
faces in the same order as the corresponding Replacement surfaces .
Replace Face identifies the pairs
of original and replacement faces and performs the replacement.
Replace a face in a solid or surface body.
The replacement surface body can be of the following types:
Any type of surface feature such as an extrude,
loft, fill, and so on.
A knit surface body, or a complex imported surface
body.
Usually wider and longer than the faces you are
replacing. However, in some cases when the replacement surface body is
smaller than the faces for replacement, the replacement surface body extends
to meet the adjacent faces.
The faces for replacement have the following characteristics: