About Creating a Surface
You can create surface features by using any of the following commands on the Model tab:
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Extrude—Creates a quilt by extruding the sketched section at a specified depth in the direction normal to the sketching plane.
When you use
To Selected as a depth option, the new surface can be extruded to planar surfaces, a quilt, or a datum plane that is parallel to the sketching plane.
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Revolve—Creates a quilt by rotating the sketched section at a specified angle around the first centerline sketched in the section. You can also specify the rotation angle.
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Sweep—Creates a quilt by sweeping a sketched section along a selected trajectory. You can select any datum curve or edge as the trajectory.
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Helical Sweep—Creates a quilt using helical sweep geometry.
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Swept Blend—Creates a quilt using swept blend geometry.
• Shapes >
Blend—Creates surfaces by connecting sections or curves that lie on planes that are parallel to each other. The sections can be selected or sketched.
• Shapes >
Rotational Blend—Creates surfaces by connecting sections or curves whose sketch planes intersect at an axis of rotation. The sections can be selected or sketched.
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Boundary Blend—Creates a quilt by selecting boundaries in one or two directions.
• Surfaces group—Contains a list of commands for creating surfaces with complex feature definition.
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Copy—Creates a quilt by copying existing quilts or surfaces. Specify a selection method, and select the surfaces to copy. The surface feature is created directly on top of the selected surfaces.
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Fill—Creates a planar quilt by sketching its boundaries.
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Mirror—Creates a mirrored copy of existing quilts or surfaces about the specified plane.
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Extend—Creates a quilt or surface by extending the existing quilts or surfaces. Specify a chain of boundary edges of the existing surface to extend. You can also specify the extend type, length, and direction of the extended surface or quilt.
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Offset—Creates a quilt offset from a quilt or surface.
You can also create a surface feature by using the following commands:
• Blend from File—Creates a blended surface from a file.
|  For more information about the creation of surfaces, refer to the Part Modeling module of the Creo Help. |