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Util Macro Menu

Util Macro Menu

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From the bottom of the Utility Menu, click Util and the following menu appears:

 

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The Util macro menu contains these tools and shortcuts.

Tools

Description

Scale

Scales entities uniformly or non-uniformly. See the Scale panel info below.

Isolate Surf

Isolates either an inner or an outer surface layer from a 3-D model. This macro works only on the surfaces attached to the selected surface. The other layer and thickness are then placed in a temp directory and masked.

MidSurface

Opens the Midsurface panel.

Edges

Description

Equiv

Provides a shortcut to the edges subpanel and equivalence function selected.

Multi-Comp Equiv

Provides the Automesh panel – cleanup subpanel -- toggle function.

(Un)suppress

Provides a shortcut to the edit edges subpanel and (un)suppress function selected. See panel info below.

Surfaces

Description

Spline

Provides a shortcut to the Spline panel, with the lines selector button highlighted and the mesh, keep surf option selected.

Drag

Provides a shortcut to the Drag panel, with the node list selector button highlighted and the mesh, keep surf option selected.

Spin

Provides a shortcut to the Spin panel, with the node list selector button highlighted and the mesh, keep surf option selected.

Ruled

Provides a shortcut to the Ruled Surface/Mesh panel, with the node list selector button highlighted and the mesh, keep surf option selected.

Sweep

Provides a shortcut to the Line Drag panel and  the drag geoms subpanel,  with the node list selector button highlighted and the mesh, w/o surf option selected.

Skin

Provides a shortcut to the Skin Surface/Mesh panel, with the line list selector button highlighted and the mesh, keep surf option selected.

Surface Edit

Description

2 Node Cut

Provides a shortcut to the Surface Edit panel and the trim with nodes subpanel, with the two nodes option selected and the yellow nodes selector button highlighted.

Defeature

Provides a shortcut to the Geom panel and the pinholes subpanel, with the yellow surfs selector button highlighted.

Delete

Provides a shortcut to the Delete panel with the yellow surfs selector button highlighted.

Duplicates

Provides a shortcut to the edit edges subpanel and (un)suppress function selected. See panel info.

 

 

See also

Utility Menus