Share Tool Guides and Options

Share 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	The Select tool guide is active by default. This tool guide allows you to select coincident areas that are automatically found by the tool.
Select Geometry	The Select Geometry tool guide allows you to select faces and edges to share.
Exclude Problem	The Exclude Problem tool guide allows you to exclude areas sharing.
Complete	The Complete tool guide shares all highlighted coincident areas.

Share Tool Options

The following options are available:

Coincidence tolerance	Enter a value in model units. Objects that are within this distance from each other will be considered coincident.
Preserve instances	Select this option to preserve instanced components. Contacts between instanced components and other geometries will be ignored.
Preview connectivity by color	Select this option to see the types of connections that will be generated after sharing. This option is off by default, but can add a lot of clarity to the preview.