Thanks for joining me on my lessons through the land of BricsCAD Shape. Today's excursion takes us on a tour of editing tools. Like most other 3D modeling programs, BricsCAD Shape offers multiple ways to edit entities. In today's lesson, you'll be learning how to use some of the most frequently used editing commands in CAD.
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How to Split a Solid
To split an entity:
- Use the Slice command
- Select the object you want to split.
- Select two points to indicate the cutting line
- Hit Enter.
How to Join Solids
Let's join poor Daisy back together! To join touching or overlapping solids:
- Use the Union Command.
- Select the solids
- Hit Enter.
Remove one solid from another
To Subtract one solid from another:
- Use the Subtract Command.
- Select the solid to subtract from.
- Select the solid to use to subtract.
- If applicable, delete the solid used to subtract.
If you use this command to split a solid into 2 or more pieces you will notice that BricsCAD Shape keeps these solids linked as one object. To fix this:
- Use the Separate command.
- Select the entity to separate.
- Hit Enter twice.
Keep only intersecting solids
What if we want to keep only the intersecting portions of two or more solids? We use intersect of course!
- Select the Intersect Command
- Select the solids
- Hit Enter
What's next?
In this CAD lesson, we reviewed tools to edit entities; altering their appearance. In the next lesson, we'll explore even more ways to edit your models.
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