Removing Volumes from the Part While Creating Walls

The Cutout capability removes volumes from the part while creating walls. The area of the cutout is protected, which means that nothing can penetrate this area that is in the same body. Entities in other bodies can penetrate protected areas.

In this task, you will create two cutouts.

 

 

  1. Click the Cutout icon .
    The Cutout dialog box that appears displays the Prism icon as the default shape to be created. Keep this option.

    First Cutout

  2. In the specification tree, select Cap Cutout as the closed profile to be used. The application previews the cutout as well as two textual indicators for both limits:

  3. In the Floor frame, enter 8mm in the Length field to define the location for the floor.

  4. In the Opening frame, Enter -20mm in the Length field to define the location for the opening.

  5. Check the With floor option, if not already done.

  6. Click the Draft tab.

  7. To define the draft angle, set the Draft behavior option to Intrinsic to feature. Options are now displayed.

  8. Set the Angle option to -3deg if not already done.

  9. Click the Fillet tab to add a fillet to the cutout edges.

  10. Enter 1mm for the Floor radius value.

  11. Click OK to confirm. The first cutout is created and as a protected area, it is displayed in red:

    Second Cutout

  12. In the specification tree, select Screen Cutout as the profile to be used.

  13. Enter 0mm in the Length field to define the floor location.

  14. Enter -20mm in the Length field to define the opening location.

  15. Uncheck the With floor option.

  16. Click the Draft tab and enter -3 in the Angle field to define the draft angle value.

  17. Click the Fillet tab and to define the lateral radius value, enter 5mm in the corresponding field.

  18. Click OK to confirm. The second cutout is created:

    The specification tree indicates these operations under the names of Cutout.1 and Cutout.2.

In a Nutshell

The Cutout capability protects the volume from material volumes in the same body penetrating into it and generates walls around this volume.

To know more about this capability, refer to Cutout.