Menu : SURFACE

Command: Plane:Select

Shortcut : None

This command selects a planar (flat) gap in the target surface or element. It asks you to point to the edges of the model that should act as the plane boundaries. Select each edge that bounds a single planar gap with the left mouse button. Finally, end the command with right button.

Curves are created from these edges and are stored in a 3D curve-set. The command SURFACEÞPlane:Fill may be used to fill these areas with planar surfaces.

In this example the top edge of the revolved surface was selected with SURFACEÞPlane:Select before filling the gap with SURFACEÞPlane:Fill to get the result on the right. It would not be possible to fill both the gaps at the top and bottom of this surface in one go with this technique. You would have to repeat the procedure twice. There are other (better) ways of achieving this result in this simple case this. This command is usually used for more complex ‘gaps’.