Stitch surfaces, Transfer surfaces, Add surfaces (Repair environment)

Stitches surfaces together to form a quilt or solid. Surface edges can be of different sizes, and not adjacent to each other. The stitch command has a gap tolerance control that provides an upper limit and helps Autodesk Inventor determine the proper edges to use for stitching.

Also used to analyze whether surfaces are suitable for stitching. Use Transfer Surface to create a new composite or add the selection to the specified destination body. Use Add Surface to add the selection to the active quilt.

Access:

Ribbon: Repair tab Modify panel Stitch Ribbon: Repair tab Modify panel Transfer Surface Repair environment browser: Quilt body Context menu Add Surface

Note: You can also right-click a Quilt node and choose Add Surface to stitch a surface to an existing quilt.

Face. Selects individual faces to stitch together into a quilt or analyze. Surfaces highlight in the graphics window as they are selected.

Body. Selects all body surfaces to stitch together into a quilt or analyze. Surfaces highlight in the graphics window as they are selected.

Destination (Transfer Surface only)

• Body. Moves and stitches the selection set to the specified body.
• Create New Composite. The selection set creates a new body.

Fill gaps smaller than. Select or enter a value for the maximum allowable gap tolerance between free edges.

Maintain as surface. If not selected, a stitched surface with a valid closed volume is solidified. If selected, the stitched surface remains a surface.

Find remaining gaps and free edges . Analyzes selected surfaces and changes the color of surface edges in the graphics window to indicate suitability for stitching. In the preview, successfully stitched edges display black, unstitched edges display red. Identifies surfaces that have gaps, free edges, or tolerance errors and displays them in a list.

• Select a row item and right-click on it to display the context menu.
  • Select Find in Window, to zoom in on the edge.
  • Select Set as Tolerance, to use the value as the gap tolerance used in stitching.
• Free edge pairs display the value of the maximum gap between them.
• Free edge pairs which partially exceed the maximum tolerance, display the minimum gap in Red (meaning that the gap is within tolerance but not fixed).
• Free edges without pairs display no gap value.

Show Near Tangent. When checked, this option shows near tangent conditions.

Note: This option has an impact on performance.

Magenta edges have some discontinuity to the adjacent surface (are nearly tangent). These edges can cause failures in subsequent design operations such as creating a shell.

OK Stitches selected surfaces into a quilt or solid.