- The Knit Surface tool allows us to take
two or more surfaces and combine them together
into one surface.
Most of the time it's going to be using the edges
of those surfaces and think about almost
like sewing them together to create one combined surface.
To do that let's go up to Knit Surface.
And notice if I choose this one here
and I choose this one here,
it's going to not let me do it.
It's going to say, "Hey, I can't find any edges"
and that's my first problem.
So before you start knitting surfaces together
we've got to make sure that we're trimming them.
So trim surface this time, I'm going to use
the Trim tool this and I'm going to choose this here.
I'm going to remove that and as soon as I remove that
now I can knit these two together to become one surface.
Same thing in here.
I've got a edge here that I can knit together
so I'm going to basically sew these two edges together
to create one continuous surface.
Now go up to Knit Surface.
This time I'm going to choose this one here,
and this one there, and click on Ok.
Now instead of two individual surfaces,
now it is one uniform surface.
I can also tell this by going up to my Surface Bodies folder
and taking a look at what's available.
So I have this tube here and then I have this surface knit
which is all these parts together.
Now again I can combine this one and this surface here
by going up to Surface Knit, choosing that surface,
choosing this surface, and clicking on Ok.
Again now we only have one surface body.
It's the entire thing all at one time.
This is also very useful if you're using
maybe an Up To Surface command,
and you have multiple surfaces that are all coming together.
You might want to trim them out to being one surface
and then knit them all together,
so you have one uniform surface that you can then extend
up to when you're doing some solid modeling techniques.
Anyways that's the basics of the Knit Surface tool.
Pretty straight forward.
You're just choosing the surfaces you want
to combine together, selecting which edges you want to use,
and away you go.
The Knit Surface tool.