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About the Solidify Feature User Interface
The Solidify tab consists of commands, tabs, and shortcut menus. Select a quilt or surface geometry to solidify, and then click Model > Solidify to open the Solidify tab.
Commands
Type
Fill With Solid—Creates solid volume using the selected quilt.
Remove Material—Removes material using the selected quilt or datum plane.
Replace Surface—Patches the selected quilt to a solid.
Settings
Material Side—Changes the side of the modified geometry.
Tabs
References
Quilt collector—Displays the quilt or datum plane to solidify.
Body Options
Add geometry to body—Displayed when geometry is added ( Fill With Solid is selected).
Create new body check box—Creates the geometry in a new body.
Body collector
Selects the body to which geometry is added. The default body is displayed, but you can select a different body.
Shows the name of the new body when you create the geometry in a new body.
Cut geometry from body—Displayed when geometry is removed ( Remove Material is selected).
All—Cuts geometry from all the bodies that the feature passes through.
Selected—Cuts geometry from the selected bodies. The default body is displayed, but you can select a different body or bodies.
Body collector—Displays the body from which geometry is removed.
Apply to body—Displayed when the quilt or surface meets the solidify (patch) feature conditions ( Replace Surface is selected).
Body collector—Selects the body whose surfaces will be replaced by the reference quilt.
Properties
Name box—Sets a name for a feature.
—Displays detailed component information in a browser.
Shortcut Menus
Right-click the graphics window to access shortcut menu commands.
Add Material—Creates solid volume using the selected quilt.
Remove Material—Removes material using the selected quilt or datum plane.
Patch—Patches the selected quilt to a solid.
Clear—Clears the selected reference from the active collector.
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At any given time, only one of the Add Material, Remove Material, and Patch commands can be selected.
Click the direction arrow to change the side of the modified geometry.
Right-click the direction arrow to access shortcut menu commands.
Flip—Changes the side of the modified geometry.