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Operation | Description |
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Upper Surface | An open surface is created of the upper part of the input solid(s). |
Lower Surface | An open surface is created of the lower part of the input solid(s). |
Clip Surface by Polygon (Exclude Outside) | Intersect a surface with a polygon(s). This can be digitised in graphics or imported. Exclude Excludes the outside. |
Clip Surface by Polygon (Exclude Inside) | Outersect a surface with a polygon(s). This can be digitised in graphics or imported. Exclude Excludes the inside. |
Append Surfaces | Append surfaces to one another in the given order. |
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Icons | Symbol | Description |
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Red X | Remove highlighted Operation/ | |
Up / Down arrows | Reorder operations by moving highlighted set up/down the list/. | |
Blue triangle (Play sign) | Run selected operation. | |
Save Disc | Save the result of the selected operation to a file. | |
Green Arrow | Save the result of the selected operation to the Layers panel. |
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6. Click on the green arrow icon to save the result to the Layers panel. The layer generated will be called after the Operation Set name and the Operation number.
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Benefits of clipping surfaces:
Loading smaller files into memory excluding data not required;.
Reduces time when running setup tasks;.
Reduces size of the project files.
Excludes unnecessary extends of larger surfaces.
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