Working with solid editing commands

In this section, the first of the three groups of modify commands will be discussed. As we will see in this section, it adds helpful tools to our solid editing arsenal. You can separate multi-body objects, create a cavity inside a solid body in just one step, slice an object, or create a curved shape starting from a curved surface. Using these commands, along with their alternative methods and options, will be discussed in detail in this section. Let’s start now with the separate command.

Using the separate command

Sometimes, you may have several separate solid bodies in one solid object definition and you want to make one of these bodies an individual 3D object. As the name suggests, the separate command is used for that specific task.

To start the separate command, you can type SOL and then press Enter to open the solid editing option list. Select Body and then select seParate solids, as shown in the following screenshot:

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