Solid Introduction

In this chapter, various aspects of the solid building functions in Cimatron will be discussed.

• Drive - Both the creation and addition of drives to an existing solid by driving a 2D sketch along a spine. The spine is created by using the Corner Radius function.
• Divide - Cut (trim) one or more open or closed objects (also faces) by using a face(s), plane, or object(s) as a cutting tool.
• Round - Create round edges from sharp corners. The rounding radius can be constant or variable.
• Loft - This technique allows the formation of relatively complex surfaces from a set of cross sectional curves.
• Extrude - Create a new solid or add to an existing solid by extruding (pulling) a 2D sketch in a given direction. Referred to here as the Extrude to Reference option, which includes the Extension tool found in Cimatron
• Taper - This function rotates faces around existing curves or edges.
• Cut - This feature that is used on an open object allows the user to choose either the trim or Boolean option when using the cut function.
• Tolerant Stitch - This feature in Cimatron ensures that faces stitched using the Tolerant Stitch option do not contain any open edges.
• Chamfer - Creates a symmetric (90 degree bevel) chamfer or asymmetric chamfer along a solid edge or edges. The desired chamfer depth is entered in the Distance field.
• Remove & Extend - Removes faces and extends adjacent faces to close the gap created.
• Extend Object - Fast modifications of Solid objects.
• Stretch - Stretch or shrink an object along a vector in relative to a reference plane.