Rip Features
Rip features allow you to tear a continuous piece of sheet metal material so that when you unbend a design, it tears along the ripped section. There are four types of rips available:
• Sketched Rip—Tears the sheet metal part along a sketched path. You can exclude surfaces to protect them from rip.
• Surface Rip—Cuts out a surface patch from the sheet metal part and in the process removes volume from the part.
• Edge Rip—Tears the sheet metal part along an edge. You can define edge treatment for the ripped edges.
• Rip Connect—Tears the sheet metal part between two datum points or vertices or a combination of both.
The four rip types are specified by the enumerated type ProSmtRipType and take the following values:
• PRO_SMT_RIP_REGULAR—Specifies a Sketched Rip.
• PRO_SMT_RIP_SURFACE—Specifies a Surface Rip.
• PRO_SMT_RIP_EDGE—Specifies an Edge Rip.
• PRO_SMT_RIP_CONNECT—Specifies a Connect Rip.