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About Ripping Material
Use the rip tools to tear a continuous piece of sheet metal material so that when you unbend a design, it tears along the ripped section. The Edge Rip and Rip Connect tools are also available when creating a Conversion feature. There are four rip tools:
• Edge Rip—Tears the sheet metal along an edge. You can define edge treatment for the ripped edges.
• Surface Rip—Cuts out an entire surface patch from the model and removes volume from the model.
 
* You can use the Split Area tool to define a surface patch.
• Sketched Rip—Tears the sheet metal along a sketched line. You can exclude surfaces to protect them from the rip.
• Rip Connect—Tears the sheet metal between two datum points or vertices, or a combination of both.
You can use the Rip Connect tool to tear a planar section of sheet metal material in a straight line and join existing edge rips. A rip connect endpoint must be either a datum point, or a vertex and must lie at the end of an edge rip or on the part border. A rip connect cannot be collinear with an existing edge.