To Next will extend the profile up to the first surface it encounters when adding material. When performing Cut and Slice operations, the extent will go up to and through the first surface or volume it encounters. Although the preview will show the direction in which the profile gets extruded, the actual extent will not be determined until the feature is generated.
 |  |
If Target Bodies are selected, then the Ansys DesignModeler application will only consider those bodies when determining the To Next extent.
If the Target Bodies property is set to All Bodies, then, all active bodies in the model are considered when determining the To Next extent if the operation type is Add Frozen, Add Material, Imprint Faces, or Cut Material. If the Target Bodies property is set to All Bodies, then, all bodies in the model are considered when determining the To Next extent if the operation type is Slice Material.
Note: When using the Imprint operation type, the To Next extent may in fact not be extruded if the application determines that the profile is already coincident to a face. In this case, the application will imprint that face only and skip extruding the profile up to the next surface.
When performing the Add Frozen operation, only active bodies that partially intersect with the extrusion will be removed until it encounters the first active body surface or volume completely bounding the extrusion.
Example 22: Add Frozen
Consider two active bodies are present in the Ansys DesignModeler application, as shown below. The face from the surfaced body is selected as the extrusion profile with the Add Frozen operation.
The To Next extent for the selected profile creates an extruded body with cut out portions of partially intersecting active bodies as shown below.
 |  |
Other Extent Types:
.