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Solids Tab

Modify Features

Solid Utilities

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Primitives

	Slab (3D only) Used to place an extruded solid with a rectangular cross-section.
	Cylinder (3D only) Used to place a solid cylinder.
	Sphere (3D only) Used to place a spherical solid — a solid of revolution with a circular cross section.
	Ellipsoid (3D only) Used to place an ellipsoid, a solid defined by three radii.
	Cone (3D only) Used to place a solid cone.
	Elliptical Cone (3D only) Used to place an elliptical cone solid, which is a transition solid between two ellipses.
	Torus (3D only) Used to place a torus (a donut-shaped surface or solid).
	Linear Solid Used to create a wall like solid (rectangular section) by defining its alignment.

Create Solids

	Extrude (3D only) Used to create a solid generated by linearly extruding a profile element (text, shape, or complex shape, B-spline surface, face of a surface or solid element) a defined distance.
	Extrude Along (3D only) Used to create: a tubular solid extrusion along a path. a solid by extruding a profile element along a path. Profile elements can be a closed element such as a shape, complex shape, B-spline surface, or a selected face of solid or surface element.
	Thicken (3D only) Used to add thickness to an existing surface to create a solid.
	Revolve Used to create a solid of revolution — a complex 3D element that is generated by rotating a profile element (ellipse, shape, complex chain, complex shape, or closed B-spline curve) about an axis of revolution.

Features

	Cut Used to cut solids using a profile. It requires at least one 2D profile and a solid to operate.
	Fillet (3D only) Used to fillet, or round, one or more edges of a solid, projected surface, or a surface of revolution.
	Chamfer (3D only) Used to chamfer one or more edges of a solid, projected surface, or a surface of revolution.
	Hole Constructs a simple, counterbore, or countersunk hole in a feature-based solid.
	Protrude Used to construct a protrusion on a parametric solid using a closed profile element (shape, complex shape, circle, or ellipse) in the design, as the protrusion profile.
	Shell (3D only) Used to create a hollowed out solid having faces of a defined thickness.
	Sweep Edge Used to place a cut or protrusion along a path defined by edges of a parametric solid using a profile.
	Imprint Used to create edge on a solid by drawing a line, line string, block, circle, shape, imprinting a curve, or by creating an offset copy of an existing edge.
	Taper Face Used to taper one or more faces on a solid.
	Spin Face Used to spin, or rotate, one or more faces of a solid about an axis.

Modify Features

	Edit Feature Used to edit the parameters of a selected parametric element or feature.
	Modify Solid Used to manipulate faces, edges or vertices of a solid by pushing or pulling them interactively.
	Trim Solid Used to trim a solid to its intersection with another solid.
	Unite (3D only) Used to unite two or more overlapping solids.
	Subtract (3D only) Used to subtract the volume of one or more overlapping solids from another solid.
	Intersect (3D only) Used to construct a solid that is the intersection of two or more overlapping solids.
	Delete Piece Used to remove disjoint pieces of a parametric solid such as created from a subtract operation.
	Delete Face Used to remove faces from parametric solids.
	Move Parametric Solid Feature Used to move a feature of a parametric element.
	Rotate Parametric Solid Feature Used to rotate a feature of a parametric element, or create a rotated copy of the feature, about a defined axis.
	Mirror Parametric Solid Feature Used to mirror a feature of a parametric element , or create a mirrored copy of the feature, about a defined axis.
	Array Parametric Solid Feature Used to construct an array of a parametric feature.
	Show Input Feature Used to show the input element of an applied feature on a parametric element.
	Hide Input Feature Used to hide the input element of an applied feature on a parametric element.
	Replace Solid or Profile Used to replace an input profile of a feature, applied on a parametric, with another existing profile in the drawing.
	Disable Feature Used to disable the effect of a feature from a parametric element. The feature is not deleted, only disabled.
	Delete Solid Feature Used to remove a feature from a parametric solid.
	Remove Last Feature Used to remove the feature at the top position (undo the last feature) in the feature tree of a parametric solid.

Solid Utilities

Extract Faces/Edges
Used to extract a face or edge from a solid or surface.

Convert to Solid
(3D only) Used to convert:

a closed surface to a solid or a SmartSolid.
an existing solid to a SmartSolid.
a SmartSolid to a Parametric solid.

Remove Entity by Size
Used to simplify parametric solids by removing unwanted details based on predetermined sizes.