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To limit a Boundary by an existing Boundary

Select the Limit Boundary option if you want to limit a new boundary by an existing boundary. These options are only available for: Rest, Selected Surface, Shallow, Silhouette, Collision Safe and Stock Model Rest boundaries.

  • Limiting Boundary list — Select an existing boundary from the list to make it the limiting boundary.
  • Inside — Select this option so the new boundary is inside the limiting boundary.
  • Outside — Select this option so the new boundary is outside the limiting boundary.
Note: The limiting boundary cannot itself be limited by another boundary.

This example shows you how to create a selected surface boundary. This uses the cowling.dgk model in the Examples folder.

  1. Create a simple User Defined Boundary:

  2. Create a Selected Surface Boundary with:
    1. Limit Boundary selected.
    2. The user defined boundary as your Limiting Boundary.
    3. Inside selected.

  3. Selecting Outside, rather than Inside produces:

  4. Create a Selected Surface Boundary with Limit Boundary deselected.

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