To Fill in an Article
Before you can lay out a strip, you must fill in all the pierces and forms in the article. Use > 
Fill Article to automatically create red extrude surfaces for each pierce, or to create extrude cuts and a blue extrude surface for each form. The resulting cut and surface features are referred to as manufacturing features.
Fill Article to automatically create red extrude surfaces for each pierce, or to create extrude cuts and a blue extrude surface for each form. The resulting cut and surface features are referred to as manufacturing features.You can also manually fill in articles using one of the following procedures:
• Create manufacturing features.
1. Sketch extruded cuts (for forms) or sketch an extruded surface with capped ends (for pierces and forms) on the driving surface for the article.
2. Click > > and then select 
Assign Piercing Operation or 
Assign Forming Operation.
Assign Piercing Operation or Assign Forming Operation.3. Select the appropriate extruded surfaces respective to the cuts, to define pierces or forms.
• Create curves on the driving surface of the article.
1. Click > > and then click 
Assign Pierce Curve, 
Assign Form Curve, or 
Assign Form Curve without Cut.
Assign Pierce Curve, Assign Form Curve, or Assign Form Curve without Cut.2. Select curves on which to define one or more pierce or punch curves.
• Create manufacturing features.
1. Click > > > 
Create Manufacturing Features.
Create Manufacturing Features.2. Select one or many pierce or punch curves. For curves with multiple loops, the feature is created between the outer-most loops.
• To suppress features in all instances, click > > > 
Suppress in all instances.
Suppress in all instances.