How do I divide or split a solid and keep both halves? - part deux

[LessWeight]

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This question was asked in the above previous thread and there were a couple answers, but questioned the reason for wanting it. Well, here's my reason: I'm an analyst and have some long parts for which I need to do inertial measurements of the part of the mass between planes along the length. This is not for constructing the solid - it's for analyzing it in chunks. So I'd like to copy the planes from another file and split the solid with them in the Detail Work Bench of V5, but keep all the pieces so I can do the inertial measurements.
The Split command for surfaces gives you the option to keep both sides, but not the split command for solid bodies. In the CATIA "Help" I saw a reference to a Divide command that looks like it would do this, but it doesn't appear to be available under my license or maybe in some other Work Bench I don't have.
Any other ideas, or clarification on where the Divide command can be used?

 

[itsmyjob]

if you can work with Volume and not Solid then you need GSO license and do the split in GSD. GSO gives you the possibility to create Volume features.
There are some option (with GSO) to split a solid (or a volume) and keep both side as volumes.

Eric N.
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[jackk]

Interesting link that you included LessWeight!

As you noted, there is no option to split a solid and keep both halves.

If I was only obtaining inertia measuremtns for various sections, I would temporarily split the solid, get the measurement and copy it somewhere (spreadsheet), and then modify the split and get the next measurement.

If you really want to keep all the sections, I'd do what Albigger suggested: copy the body to get a second body and split each one.

 

[LessWeight]

Thank you all!