User Guide
User Guide
User Guide

3D Main tool frame

Tools for creating and modifying solids and surfaces are accessed from tool boxes in this tool frame.

To

Use tools in the

Place a simple 3D element — slab, sphere, cylinder, cone, torus, or wedge.

3D Primitives tool box

Extrude a solid or surface, or construct a surface of revolution,

or

Extrude a solid or surface along a path,

or

Construct a thin shell solid,

or

Thicken a surface into a solid.

3D Construct tool box

Modify a solid, remove a face, taper a solid

or

Construct a new solid from the union, intersection, or difference of existing solids,

or

Cut, fillet, or chamfer an existing solid, or edit a 3D primitive.

3D Modify tool box

Align elements relative to a face on each element,

or

Change the display of a SmartSolid/SmartSurface,

or

Extract a face or edge from a solid, or intersect a solid/surface with a linear element.

or

Create a set of planar shapes from a 3D element.

3D Utility tool box

Key-in: DIALOG TOOLBOX solid