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cut with a surface
don_howe
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is it possible to cut with a surface? I tried the thicken option but couldn't get enough thickness to cut the part
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/71f32dc45abd4884aa76c045/w/61c0ec2dae48406080ccef39/e/b4a44f50708e4d3488d143c0
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/71f32dc45abd4884aa76c045/w/61c0ec2dae48406080ccef39/e/b4a44f50708e4d3488d143c0
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You can split parts using surfaces, and then simply delete whichever new part represents the unwanted side.
https://cad.onshape.com/help/#splitpart.htm?
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You can split parts using surfaces, and then simply delete whichever new part represents the unwanted side.
https://cad.onshape.com/help/#splitpart.htm?
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Thanks that's what I needed. I was trying to do it with extrude and thicken.
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I could only choose 1 surface to split the part and was unable to select both. Therefore I went ahead and thickened your surfaces a did Boolean subtract then hide the remaining piece.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/0b426828b6474c78909a6732/w/1e084a4936e341c8af91ebc5/e/27d9514be44a467eb22e9ed0
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At present we cannot knit surfaces in Onshape.
The only way I'm aware of to create surface knits is to model them in a single feature.0 -
andrew_troup said:At present we cannot knit surfaces in Onshape.
The only way I'm aware of to create surface knits is to model them in a single feature.
A separate topic, but something I had to find out today (and would have been helpful to know generally). The fill feature will automatically knit a surface body to create a solid (if all surfaces of the knit are selected to create the fill surface).
If you have geometry where that's not the case, but have a group of surfaces that could create a closed body, the union feature can be used to create a knit (or, create a solid from the group of surfaces).
It's possible these features were not an option at the time of the creation of this thread, but for anybody trying to knit like how SolidWorks allows, these features will be the equivalent of what you would use.
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