Sewing

Sewing feature unites several faces (possibly contained in a shell, solid or compound) into one shell. Geometrically coincident (within a specified tolerance) edges (or parts of edges) of different faces are replaced by one edge thus producing a shell or faces with shared boundaries.

To perform the Sewing in the active part:

  1. select in the Main Menu Features - > Sewing item or

  2. click sewing_btn.icon Sewing button in the toolbar

The following property panel will be opened:

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Sewing feature

Input fields:

  • Objects contains a list of objects selected in the Object Browser or in the Viewer, which will be sewn.

  • Tolerance defines the tolerance to use for the Sewing operation.

  • Allow Non-Manifold allows to create non-manifold shapes, if checked.

  • Always create a result allows to always create a result shape, even if there was nothing sewn.

TUI Command:

model.addSewing(Part_doc, objects, tolerance, allowNonManifold, createResult)
Parameters

  • part – The current part object.

  • list – A list of objects.

  • real – The tolerance value to be used for the sewing.

  • boolean – Defines whether to allow non-manifold results.

  • boolean – Defines whether to always create a result.

Returns

Created object.

Result

The Result of the operation will be a shape with all coincident edges being united:

See Also a sample TUI Script of Create Sewing operation.