From Overlapping Elements

Geometry > Body > From Overlapping Elements

Dialog Box

This tool is useful, when the user wants to extract the outer skin of an assembly using the wrapper mesh of the assembly. This will identify the overlapping faces between reference and input bodies. The identified faces from the input bodies will be extracted and created as a new body.

  • Reference body

    Reference body can be specified here. User cannot select more than one body.

  • Input bodies

    Input or target bodies can be specified here. User can select multiple bodies.

  • Tolerance

    Tolerance value can be modified to get more/less overlapping faces. A default value will be displayed, when we select the bodies.

Example

  • Reference Body

  • Input Bodies

  • Output - New Body created from overlapping faces