I need to extend a solid (just a dumb solid) from the location of the Plane1.
How could I do it?
The only tool I know is Split, in Part Design , but it deletes one side.......
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You might have to use several features. Split, translate, pad (to fill in the gap), then mirror. If you want to extend it from only one end you can just use thick surface.
I had to copy the body and paste it in a new body. Then two different splits, for each solid. Than pad and , finally, add.
Does anybody knows a faster a more simply procedure?
Assuming that the geometry is more complex I would go over to GSD copy and translate the surfaces that need to be moved. Create or extend the middle section and then turn it back into a solid.
In Part Design you can make a couple of copies and then Boolean combine it for this simple shape.
Hopefully someone else has a more eloquent solution. I hope this helps.
Thank you all for replays.
NX has a Split tool that divides a solid in two different/independent bodies (without deleting one of them, like Catia does).
I was hopping that Catia has a similar functionality.......
I believe that Drew is suggesting using an extruded cut to remove the middle section. From there you should be able to move the solid bodies and create an extrude to connect the two halves.
If you want to view two separate bodies that are still considered one in CATIA's history tree then use an extruded cut.
If you want two separate bodies then copy the first body so you have two solid partbodies that are identical. Then split each one by a common plane but keep the half of one and the opposite half of the other. The result will be two "two different/independent bodies" that you could then translate, add to, and modify, etc.
