Midsurface Tool Guides and Options

Midsurface Tool Guides

The following tool guides help step you through the process. Use the Tab key to cycle through them. As soon as the tool guide switches, the cursor may change to reflect the active guide.

Select Faces	The Select Faces tool guide is active by default. This tool guide allows you to select a pair of offset faces, and all other face pairs with the same offset distance are automatically detected.
Add/Remove Faces	The Add/Remove Faces tool guide allows you to select additional faces to offset or remove detected face pairs from the selection.
Swap Sides	The Swap Sides tool guide allows you to switch the face pairs. You may need to do this when you detect pairs with more than one offset distance, and the offset relationships are incorrectly detected.
Complete	The Complete tool guide creates the midsurface faces.

Midsurface Tool Options

The following options are available:

Use selected faces	Creates midsurfaces for only the faces you select.
Use range	Creates midsurfaces on all faces in the specified thickness range.
Thickness tolerance	Change the value of this option to detect offset spline faces with an offset value within the tolerance amount.
Create midsurfaces in	Select Same component to create the midsurfaces in the same component as the part you selected for midsurfacing. Select Active component to create the midsurfaces in the active component.
Create midsurfaces at	Select the location for the midsurface created. Choose from Middle (default), Bottom (green), or Top (cyan).
Group midsurfaces	Select this option to create midsurfaces in a new sub-component. Deselect the option to create the midsurface objects in the component you select in the option above (same component or active component).
Extend surfaces	Select this option to extend surfaces to another surface.
Trim surfaces	Select this option to trim surfaces to another surface.