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Creating Geometry from Solids, Surfaces, or Planes

In these examples, you intersect a surface body with a solid body to add detail to the solid body, and you create a solid body from a mold by filling in the cavity and removing the mold bodies.

Intersect Surface and Solid Bodies Create a Part from a Mold
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  1. Adding Surface Details to a Body
    In this example, you form the intersection of a surface body with a flat solid body to provide detail to the solid body. First, you open the model and examine the surface detail to add to the solid body.
  2. Intersecting the Bodies and Removing Regions
    Next, you apply the Intersect command to intersect the surface and solid bodies, removing the regions you do not require for your design.
  3. Creating a Solid Body from the Cavity in a Mold
    Next, you open a mold, and with the Intersect tool, and create three regions from the top and bottom bodies: the top, the bottom, and the cavity. Then you remove the mold top and bottom regions to create a solid body from the filled cavity.


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