Stitch surfaces together in construction 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 construction environment to:

• analyze imported surfaces
• color-mark edges to indicate which ones are currently stitched, or those that are free and can be stitched to an adjacent surface
• select one or all surfaces to stitch into a quilt.

To use the Stitch command:

1. If necessary, activate the construction environment. Right-click the Construction folder in the browser, and then select Edit Construction.
2. On the ribbon, click Construction tab Surface panel Stitch . The Stitch dialog box is displayed.
3. 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.
4. Click the Analyze tab to enable/disable edge analysis and assess edges before stitching together.
   Note: Checking tangent edge analysis decreases system performance.
5. Click the Stitch tab.
6. Set the tolerance.
7. Click Apply to join surfaces together in a quilt or solid.

   All newly stitched edges are now black. Remaining free edges are still red and are listed in the Find Remaining Free Edges list, with the maximum distance between each edge pair. Free edges that are not selected and considered for stitching have no value.

8. 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 at 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.
9. Click Apply. All newly stitched edges are now black.
10. When stitching is complete, click Done. All edges return to their original color prior to entering the Stitch command.