Fit Mitre Command

Cuts two or more clashing materials at an angle so that they no longer clash.
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1. Preselect two or more materials you want mitred. This enables the Materials contextual page. Click the Material Fit Mitre icon found in the Operations section. Skip step 2.

Alternative: Invoke Material Fit Mitre using the Find Tool by searching the command name and clicking the Material Fit Mitre icon, which is pictured above. Proceed to step 2.

2. Select two or more materials you want mitred, then press Enter .

3. Set the clearance distance (the distance you want the materials to be separated from one another by the cut), then press OK. Selecting Cancel cancels the operation.

4 . Left-click to confirm that the cut shown is the one you want. Right-click if you want to be shown different cuts.

Method 1:

1. Open the material's edit window (e.g., double-click the material, or hover the material and right-click (Menu) and choose Edit Other on the context menu).

1a: Press the Material Operations button at the bottom of the material edit window.

2. A dialog opens showing each of the material operations that appear on this material.

2a: Check the Delete check box next to the operation you wish to delete. If you want to delete multiple, you can select more than one. If you wish to remove all operations, select the Delete All check box.

2b: Press the Close button at the bottom of the Material Operations window.

2c: Press the OK button at the bottom of the material edit window.

3. The Change All Options window opens. On it is a Warnings list and Options.

3a: Optionally select the Options you want, then press the OK button.

4. The material is regenerated per the settings on its edit window. In other words, the material operation with the delete check box checked disappears.

Note: If other pieces with the same submaterial piecemark exist in the 3D model and you selected the appropriate Options, then other materials are also regenerated as specified on the edit window.

Method 2:

1. In the view in which you want to remove the material operation, display in solid form all members that you want to edit.

Alternative 1: View > Solid Opaque to display in solid form the members that you want to edit.

Alternative 2: View > Change All to Solid to display in solid form all members that are in the view.

2. Select the material operation by doing the following:

Alternative 1: Run the Show Material Operations tool if they are not shown. Once the material operation is shown you can select it.

Alternative 2: Using the Model Tree, expand the member and material subclasses, and select the Fit Mitre operation.

3. Once the Fit Mitre operation is selected, do the following to delete the operation:

Alternative 1: Select the Delete key on the keyboard.

Alternative 2: Select the Delete icon.

  • To preselect the material(s) for step 1, you may want to set the selection filter to Material.
  • Mitre can only be used on straight, unbent material. Use Cut on Plane on material that is bent.
  • Member(s) and materials on which the cuts are performed are marked for detailing.
  • To edit the clearance of the Fit Mitre operation, you can go into the Material Operations from the material edit screen or edit the material operation's solid object (see Show Material Operations).
  • Doing a Mitre on HSS round (pipe) or HSS rectangular (tube) material results in Detail Submaterial generating an unrolled surface template in the submaterial detail.