Direct Modelling provides tools to:
- make rapid edits to history-free solids.
- recognize key solid features for simple editing. For example, you can edit geometry that forms a hole region and register it as a hole feature, while maintaining the integrity of existing features and creating new hole features.
- edit the radius of fillet geometry by recognizing it as a fillet feature. Click on any fillet face and the entire track is automatically found. Enter a larger or smaller radius or remove the fillet entirely as part of a larger modification. Modified fillets are recognized as fillet features.
- add draft to faces and automatically extend and intersect all surrounding geometry to keep a closed solid. This saves you time compared to using traditional surface modelling methods.
- remove and heal to simplify geometry for downstream manufacturing operations or to accommodate design changes.
- edit faces, automatically extending and intersecting surrounding faces to maintain a closed solid. This lets you do operations like copying a strengthening rib or offsetting the side faces of a pocket.
Direct Modelling is efficient for operations that are typically performed using surface modelling and which require you to extend and intersect each surrounding face manually to create a closed solid.