Some sheet metal designs (for example, transitional shapes created with Lofted Flange) created from closed profile sketches require a rip to flatten them. A cut feature can also create such a gap, but the Rip feature has edges normal to the cut surface, and several options to simplify feature creation.
Create rips in three ways:
- Select a single point on the edge of a surface. The selected point can be a midpoint on an edge, an endpoint on a face vertex, a work point, or a sketched point from a previously created sketch.
- Select a model face and two existing points on opposite sides of the face to define the Rip begin and end. The two points can be work points, midpoints on face edges, endpoints on face vertices, or sketch points from a previously created sketch.
- Removing any entire selected face (typically a bend face).
You can place a Rip feature anywhere within the feature history. A single sheet metal model can contain multiple Rip features.
Note: Rip features do not rip across holes, cut-outs, embosses or other formed features that lie in the rip path.