- [Instructor] The split command
can allow me to take an individual body,
slice it into a couple different parts,
operate on one of those parts,
and then later we can use the combined command
to bring things back together.
So let me show you how it works.
Right over here, I want to use the split command
and which is right up here
under the direct editing toolbar,
click on that, my trim tool
one to be this sketch right there.
And I'm going to use that to cut that body
and notice I get two different bodies here
and make sure down here at the bottom
you're just checking all the boxes,
make sure everything's good, click OK.
We need to make sure we're specifying the bodies there,
so we do want both of those click OK, and there it is.
All right, so now we split it up
and you can see we've got two different bodies
this one here and that one there.
So I want to hide the outside one,
so I'm not working with that one right now.
And now I want to do something to this inside body.
So I'm going to create a pattern on the top,
so I'm going to start a sketch
and I'm going to come in here with a polygon,
which is a six-sided hexagon
and let's just draw that one out
and let's go ahead and just create a horizontal size there
and add a dimension of one inch.
Sorry, point five inches, half an inch.
There it is and now exit out.
Now I need a couple of directions,
so I need one more little sketch here.
And what I'm going to do
is I'm going to click on that top surface there,
create a sketch and I'm just going to make a line
going this direction as well as one going up like that.
So I can define how I want to pattern this around.
Now let's exit out and you can see what I have.
Okay, so now what I want to do is take that original sketch
and I want to cut that into my part.
So extruded cut, I'm going to type in 0.1, click on OK,
and there's my very first cut.
Now what I want to do is I want to pattern that
around all over this surface here,
and I can do that under pattern.
And I'm going to try this one called fill pattern
which is a really powerful way to pattern something around.
Now my fill boundary is going to be this outside edge
and my fill direction you can type in here
is my first pattern direction.
I'm going to go ahead and choose in that box there
that first line and notice what happens,
it just automatically grabs that shape
and it starts filling in as many as it can into that area.
Now my spacing let's move that down to 0.5.
That might be a little bit too tight,
let's push that back up.
I'll try 0.6 a little more.
Let's go to 0.7, okay, that looks pretty good.
Right, we got a good pattern.
Now, also we want this pattern
to extend past the edge, right?
'Cause it kind of looks a little funky here
like you got some stuff here that looks good
but out here it doesn't.
So let's go ahead and change this boundary.
Here's our margin.
I want to put a negative you in here,
so it extends past the edge.
That looks a little cleaner, right?
I like that.
And then over here under the angle,
we can also change the angle of this, right?
See if that can't get a little bit tighter
and we can play with some things here
just to see how we want it to look.
We can also change the methodology
for how we're going to control it.
So that's the circular one or this one's another linear one.
Here's another polygon method,
so there's a whole bunch of ways we can pattern this around
but let's go back to that very first one.
So there's my pattern, it looks pretty good.
You've got certain amount of controls down here.
We can also play with we can also pattern bodies
and things like that,
but once you have that pattern looking good
go ahead and click on OK.
What that's going to do is going to cut
all those little shapes into this body.
And I want to make sure that my other body isn't infected.
If you show that one here,
you can see that it's not
because now when I turn those back on
or combine them back together,
I haven't added that pattern here.
So it's a really great way to like mold a piece of plastic
or something like that.
And you want to leave a border around the outside
or a piece of foam, this is how you could do it.
So, now let's go ahead and add these back together,
come over here to direct editing,
come over here to combined, go to add,
and I want to combined these two bodies click OK,
and now we're back to having one combined body
looking pretty good.
So that's a quick and easy way to split your part
into multiple pieces,
do some operation to the individual piece
and then go back and combine the two parts back together
so you have one part at the end of the day.