Copy a Face

General

  • You can copy a part model's own surface to a new surface.
  • When you edit a part in an assembly, you can copy the surfaces of another part to the active part model.
  • You can flip the surface in relation to the original surface.
  • You can stitch a copied surface to previous surfaces.
  • You can delete a part's original geometry if you copy a surface from the part itself.
  • You can change a surface to a volume if you copy a surface from another part of the assembly.
  • When copying the surfaces of another part in an assembly, the copied surfaces will have an external reference to the original surfaces.
    • When the original part surface changes, the copied surface will also change.
  • If you copy a surface to a volume, the model changes automatically into a surface model.

Copy faces

  1. Select the ribbon bar function Part | Faces | Copy Face or
    • select the function Import | Faces | Copy Face.
  2. Select surfaces and tangential shellings.
    • If you wish to add a tangential chain of faces by clicking one face only, select the auxiliary function Search tangential surface chain.
  3. Select Confirm (Confirm = V key, middle mouse button or the context-sensitive function OK)
    • The program opens the dialog box Copy Surface.
  4. Define the Surface Copy Data in the dialog box.
    • Define an offset from the original surface for the copied surface.
    • Select the direction of surface adding:
      • Inside In or
      • Outside Out relative to the selected surfaces.
    • You can flip the copied surface in relation to the original surface by selecting Reverse surface direction.
    • If you select Remove original geometry, only the copied surfaces remain visible in the model.
      • This is only available if you copy the part’s own surface.
    • You can mirror faces created when copying by selecting Mirror.
      • Indicate a mirror plane in the model.
      • The text Mirror Plane appears in the element list, unless a mirror plane has been indicated earlier.
    • If you are modeling a new part in the assembly, you can model a sheet metal part by selecting the property To volume.
      • When you accept the data, the Tangential offset data opens .
      • In this dialog box, you can define the thickness of the sheet metal part in section Value.
    • With the button Add you can still add surfaces to be copied.
    • With the button Change you can change the selected surface to another surface.
    • With tht button Delete you can remove the selected surface.
    • Preview by clicking the Apply button in the dialog box. If necessary, you can still edit the feature data.
  5. Select OK.

Copy the selected surface

This function is available only when you have selected the part model’s own surfaces.

  1. Select a face or faces.
  2. Select the context-sensitive function Surfaces > Copy.
    • The program opens the dialog box Copy Surface.
  3. Continue as above, steps 4...5.

Example 1

  • The surface has been copied by mirroring it with an auxiliary plane.

Example 2

Surface copying has been used to create sheet metal parts.

  • The assembly has a jig part (light red).
  • Four new parts have been created in the assembly, where a surface or tangential surface chain has been copied, which is then made into a sheet metal part.