Fit Cope

Fit Cope ( Modeling )

Tool summary :

Cuts the first material that you select so that it fits around the next one or more materials that you select with a minimum of cuts.
Here are some examples:

One piece of material is cut using Fit Cope so that it fits around six other pieces of material using a minimal number of cuts.
Doing a Cope operation on an HSS round (pipe) or on an HSS rectangular (tube) results in Detail Submaterial generating a unrolled surface template of the material in the submaterial detail. For an HSS round, you get an interior and exterior cut surface. You do not get a surface template for non-fit cutting operations such as Cut on Plane , Cut Layout , etc.
See (on this page), step-by-step instructions.

Also see :

The Material Operations window (to edit or delete a Fit Cope )
A solid form (materials to fit need to be in)
Primary selection ( User and Site Options > Modeling > selection color for the material that is cut)
Secondary selection (selection color for materials cut around)
Model completed (you can Cope around a model complete member, but not on one)
MemberMaterial.Material.SubMaterial.IsMaterialFittedMitredOrCoped
Examples of Fit operations

Step-by-step instructions :

The following instructions assume that you are using a 3-button mouse and that you use mouse bindings similar to those shown in these illustrations.

Before using this tool:

Make sure that the one material you want to cope and the one or more materials you want to cope around are displayed in one of the three solid forms .
Step 1 (preselection) is optional. If you are going to do step 1, you may want to set the selection filter to ' Material '. If you don't do step 1, in-tool selection is required -- see note 2 . Also, if you invoke Cope from a mode, steps 1 and 2 are combined.

1 (optional) : Place the mouse pointer ( ) on the one material you want to cut, then left-click ( Select ). It changes to the User and Site Options > Modeling > " Primary selection surface color " (green).

2 . Invoke Cope . If you didn't do step 1, see note 2 before going to step 3.

3 . The status line prompts, "Locate material to cope around." Select one or more materials, then press Enter . The materials display in the User and Site Options > Modeling > " Secondary selection color ."

4 . To " Clearance ," type in the distance between the edge of the cut and the material being cut around.

5 . Press the " OK " button to continue. The warning dialog shown here also provides " Options " for changing like materials if the model contains other pieces of material with the same submaterial piecemark .

6 . The material is now coped with the 1-inch clearance that was specified in step 4.

Tip: To select a member main material in step 1, right-click ( Menu ) and choose " Select Other " on the context menu , or just click the material with the selection filter set to ' Material '.

Note 1: To invoke Cope , you can do the following:

Click the Fit Cope icon on your ribbon. If the icon is not currently on your ribbon, you can add it using the Ribbon Editor . In the Ribbon Editor , choose Model -- Material > Fit Cope .
Use a keyboard shortcut (if one has been set up). In Modeling , Fit Cope is in the keyboard configuration " Command group " called ' Model -- Material '.
Use the appropriate mouse binding in the appropriate mode. In Mode Configuration , the tool can be selected from the " Command group " called ' Model -- Material '.
Or you can use a keyboard shortcut (if one has been set up).
To invoke Fit Cope in Material Fit Mode , first place the mouse pointer ( ) on the material you want cut, then left-click ( Cope ).

Note 2: If you didn't do step 1 (preselection), Cope activates Select One Item mouse bindings so that you can left-click ( Select ) the one material you want to cope. This prompting also occurs when more than one material or a member (rather than one material) was selected in step 1.

Select One Item bindings

Note 3: Pressing " Cancel " instead of " OK " in step 4 ends this operation.

Note 4: Member(s) on which the operation is performed are marked for detailing. Automatic detailing of the coped HSS round or HSS rectangular material generates a unrolled surface template of the material in the submaterial detail.

	1 (optional) : Place the mouse pointer ( ) on the one material you want to cut, then left-click ( Select ). It changes to the User and Site Options > Modeling > " Primary selection surface color " (green).
	2 . Invoke Cope . If you didn't do step 1, see note 2 before going to step 3.
	3 . The status line prompts, "Locate material to cope around." Select one or more materials, then press `Enter` . The materials display in the User and Site Options > Modeling > " Secondary selection color ."
	4 . To " Clearance ," type in the distance between the edge of the cut and the material being cut around.
	5 . Press the " OK " button to continue. The warning dialog shown here also provides " Options " for changing like materials if the model contains other pieces of material with the same submaterial piecemark .
	6 . The material is now coped with the 1-inch clearance that was specified in step 4.