Substitute Feature
This section describes how to construct and access the element tree for Substitute feature. It also shows how to create, redefine, and access the properties of this feature.
Introduction
The Substitute feature allows you to replace a geometry selection that belongs to a solid geometry or a quilt with replacing surfaces. The replacing surfaces are attached to the solid or quilt, and any round geometry between the geometry selection. The model is recreated after the replacing geometry is attached.
You can substitute the following geometry selection:
• Any surface collection.
• An intent surface.
• Any combination of the above geometries.
• Any one-sided edges on surfaces or quilts.
All the surfaces and one-sided edges in the geometry selection must belong to the same solid geometry or to the same quilt. The geometry selection must not be tangential to the neighboring geometry, or should be attached to the neighboring geometry with round geometry.
The replacing surfaces must be large enough to attach to the extension of the neighboring geometry, without the need to extend the replacing surfaces.
After substitution, the replacing surfaces that define the one-sided edge loops are extended and trimmed so that the resulting edges lie on the substituting geometry.
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