Stitch surfaces together in Part environment

You can stitch surfaces together into a quilt. To stitch successfully, edges must be exactly the same size and adjacent to each other.

Use Stitch in the part environment to combine surfaces whose edges are exactly the same size. A stitch feature is placed in the browser.

1. On the ribbon, click 3D Model tab Surface panel Stitch . The Stitch dialog box is displayed.
2. Choose a method to select surfaces:
   • Right-click and choose Select All from the context menu to select all surfaces at once.
   • In the graphics window, click to select one or more individual surfaces. As the surfaces are selected, the edge conditions are displayed. Edges without a co-edge become red in color. Successfully stitched edges are black.
3. Click the Analyze tab to enable/disable edge analysis and assess edges before stitching together.
   Note: Checking tangent edge analysis decreases system performance.
4. Click the Stitch tab.
5. Set the tolerance.
6. If appropriate, enable the Maintain as surface check box.
7. Click Apply to join surfaces together in a quilt or solid.
8. All newly stitched edges are now black. The remaining free edges are still red and are listed in the Find Remaining Free Edges list with the maximum distance each edge pair is from the other. Free edges that are not selected and considered for stitching has no value.
9. To stitch surfaces that were unsuccessful the first time, use tolerance control by selecting or entering a value in the Maximum Tolerance list. Look at the remaining edge pairs that you want to stitch together and the smallest associated Max Gap value. The Max Gap value is the largest gap that the Stitch command considers for making a tolerant edge. Use the smallest Max Gap value as a guide for entering a Maximum Tolerance value. For example, a Max Gap of 0.00362 must have a value of 0.004 entered in the Maximum Tolerance list to enable a successful stitch.
   Note: You can right-click a value in the list to use as the Maximum Tolerance value.
10. Click Apply. All newly stitched edges are now black.
11. When stitching is complete, click Done. All edges return to their original color before entering the Stitch command.

Note: By default, stitch features consume input surface features such as extruded or revolved surfaces. Consumed features are nested and indented below the consumer to show the dependency on that feature. In cases where consumption is not desirable, you can right-click in the browser, and then select Consume Inputs to change the consumption status.