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About the Split Surface Feature User Interface
The Split Surface tab consists of commands, tabs, and shortcut menus. Click Model > Editing > Split Surface to open the Split Surface tab.
Commands
• Selection Method
◦ Manual Selection—Sets the contour selection method to manual. You select contours to include in the Split Surface feature.
◦ Auto-detect—Sets the contour selection method to automatic. All contours are selected automatically, and you can select contours to exclude from the Split Surface feature.
• References
◦ Surface to split collector—Displays a solid surface or quilt to split.
◦ Contours collector
▪ Displays contours to copy into the split surface feature when Manual Selection is selected.
▪ Excluded contours collector—Displays contours to exclude from the feature when Auto-detect is selected.
Tabs
• Placement
◦ Split Surface collector—Displays a solid surface or quilt to split.
◦ Contours
▪ Selected contours collector—Displays contours to copy into the split surface feature when Manual Selection is selected.
▪ Excluded contours collector—Displays contours to exclude when Auto-detect is selected.
• Options
◦ For each selected contour separately—Creates a separate surface for each selected contour.
◦ For all selected contours together—Creates one single surface for all the selected contours.
• Properties
◦ Name box—Sets a name for a projection.
◦ —Displays detailed component information in a browser.
Shortcut Menus
Right-click the graphics window to access shortcut menu commands.
• Split Surface—Activates the Split Surface collector.
• Selected contours—Activates the Selected contours collector.
• Excluded contours—Activates the Excluded contours collector.
• Clear—Clears the active collector.
• Manual Region Selection—Activates Manual Selection contour selection.
• Automatic Region Selection—Activates Auto-detect contour selection.
About the Split Surface Feature