- [Narrator] In this example I'm gonna be
showing you how to use the Split command
to take the part you see here on the screen
and slice it up into individual parts
and then we can then save out to E File system.
So the first thing I want to do is take a look
at the sketch, it was sketch 6.
And you can see here we've got a couple different lines
and we want to make sure that all the lines
either continue past the edge of the part
or snap to one of the edges.
We don't want to have a line that only
goes inside of the part like this
so they do have to go past the edge of the part.
Alright?
Now what we're gonna do is we're gonna
use this sketch to create a surface.
Now if you don't have the surfaces toolbar turned on,
right click anywhere up here and notice it shows
it goes away or you can right click and show surfaces
and it'll bring a new tab up right here.
And we're gonna use Extrude Surface.
Now in order to use the Extrude Surface
I could try to select the lines out here
but it's better to just select the entire sketch
and there it is and then go ahead and drag this up.
And you can also go in direction 2
but either way we want to make sure that our sketch
or our strewed is extruding all the way
through the part we have.
Alright?
So over here let's just type in .1 so
it's going slightly above it and now click on OK.
So now we have this surface that's slicing up our part
and now we can use that Split command.
So if you don't see the Split command
you want to go to Insert, Features, Split.
Alright?
And my trim tool is gonna be this
new surface we just created.
So here's my trim tool, here's my surface and you can just
select it over here as well or the
individual surfaces right over here.
So just select all those and now what we're gonna do
is we're gonna say cut the body.
So you can see it's cutting it into
all those individual pieces.
We can name these if you'd like to or just click
on these little boxes here.
And once you're ready you can consume the
cut bodies if you'd like to,
you could also click on a couple
of these other options like
Copy Custom Properties to New Parts,
(inaudible) Individual Properties and so on.
And once you're ready let's go ahead and,
just go ahead and click on OK.
And that's going to then Split up those bodies
and we can then save them out.
Right over here if you want to say here's my cut list,
here's my individual bodies.
Right over here you can say in search of new parts
if you'd like to or save bodies.
So I'm gonna click on save bodies, there they all are.
Alright?
And I can create an assembly if I'd like to from this
or I can just leave them as they are
either way it doesn't really matter.
If you want to browse and create an assembly,
I'm gonna go ahead and click onto this little folder
called Split and we'll call this one 5.4-Split.
Alright?
There's my sub assembly and now click on OK.
That's gonna save all the individual bodies,
rebuild the assembly and now here's our original assembly
and I can also go back to my new assembly saved
out from all those individual split lines.
And now I can open my brand new assembly
that is built from all those individual bodies
that were saved out from the splits we did on that
one solid sheet metal part from the beginning.