Modify tools (Edit Model)

When you want to modify the preserve or obstacle geometry, without leaving the Generative Design workspace, use the Modify tools in the Edit Model contextual environment.

Use the tools on the Edit Model Solid tab > Modify panel to modify solid shapes. These are the same tools available in the Design workspace > Solid tab > Modify panel. Select profiles or planar faces on solid bodies when using these tools.

Use the tools on the Edit Model Surface tab > Modify panel to modify surfaces. These are the same tools available in the Design workspace > Surface tab > Modify panel. Surfaces are an outer skin that represents the shape of the model. They have no thickness. Surfaces are sometimes used to patch up openings in a model. Select 2D sketches when using these tools.

The model simplification tools - Remove Features, Remove Faces, and Replace with Primitives are also found in the Simulation workspace > Simplify contextual environment. Select faces, features, bodies, and component, with these tools.

Use the links in the table to find out more about the tools.

Modify tools - Edit Model Solid tab

Tool	Purpose
Remove Features	Simplify complex geometry by removing small, unnecessary features.
Remove Faces	Automatically remove relevant neighboring faces, when you choose a face to remove. This action ensures that the remaining geometry can be healed properly.
Replace with Primitives	Replace complex geometry with a representative primitive, such as a box, a cylinder, or a sphere.
Press Pull	Change the size of faces, bodies, fillets, chamfers, holes, and other geometry.
Fillet	Round sharp edges and corners.
Chamfer	Bevel edges.
Shell	Create a hollow cavity with walls of a specified thickness from a solid feature, by removing unnecessary material.
Draft	Add an angle to a planar face.
Scale	Increase or decrease the size of selected features, such as imported bodies that have no design history, or sketches, without having to alter dimensions.
Combine	Change the geometry of a 'target' body, to reflect the shape of selected 'tool' bodies using one of three Boolean operations, Join, Cut, or Intersect.
Replace Face	Replace an existing face with a new face that completely intersects the original body.
Split	Divide faces or bodies, to add draft, delete an area, or create features. Split Face - divides faces on a surface, or solid. Split Body - divides a solid body into two. Silhouette Split - projects a profile from an existing part to split the target face or body.
Move/Copy	Move or copy a face, body, sketch curve, component, or sketch geometry.
Align	Move a body or component, relative to another object, without creating a relationship between the objects.

Modify tools - Edit Model Surface tab

Tool	Purpose
Remove Features	Simplify complex geometry by removing small, unnecessary features.
Remove Faces	Automatically remove relevant neighboring faces, when you choose a face to remove. This action ensures that the remaining geometry can be healed properly.
Replace with Primitives	Replace complex geometry with a representative primitive, such as a box, a cylinder, or a sphere.
Press Pull	Change the size of faces, bodies, fillets, chamfers, holes, and other geometry.
Fillet	Round sharp edges and corners.
Chamfer	Bevel edges.
Trim	Remove unwanted portions of a surface.
Extend	Select an edge of a surface and extend it out further.
Stitch	Combine surfaces into a single surface or solid body.
Unstitch	Revert to multiple surfaces, or to break 3D bodies into multiple surface bodies.
Reverse Normal	Change the positive direction of the selected face, for example when repairing imported models.
Scale	Increase or decrease the size of selected features, such as imported bodies that have no design history, or sketches, without having to alter dimensions.
Split	Divide faces or bodies, to add draft, delete an area, or create features. Split Face - divides faces on a surface, or solid. Split Body - divides a solid body into two.
Move/Copy	Move or copy a face, body, sketch curve, component, or sketch geometry.
Align	Move a body or component, relative to another object, without creating a relationship between the objects.