Fit Cope Command

Cuts the material that you select so that it fits around the next material(s) that you select with a minimum of cuts.
One piece of material is cut using Fit Cope so that it fits around six other pieces of material.

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1 . Preselect a material you want to cope. This enables the Materials contextual page. Click the Material Fit Cope icon found in the Operations section. Skip step 2.

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

2 . Select the material you want the cope added to, then press Enter .

3 . Select one or more material(s) you want the material selected in step one to be coped around, then press Enter .

4 . Set the clearance distance (clearance between the edge of the cut and the material that is being cut around), then press " OK " . Selecting " Cancel " cancels the operation.

5 . The status line prompts "Verify material cut. "Yes - No" mouse bindings become active.

5a . Left-click ( Yes ) to confirm the cope and proceed to step 6.

5b . Right-click ( No ) to cancel the command.

6 . The warning dialog provides " Options " for changing like materials if the model contains other pieces of material with the same submaterial piecemark . Selecting " OK " copes the material.

Method 1 :

1 . Open the coped 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 fit or cut layout operations that appear on this material.

2a : Check the " Delete " check box next to the fit 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 Fit Cope 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 Fit Cope 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 fit cope operation by doing the following:

Alternative 1 : Run the Show Material Operations tool if they are not shown. Once the material operation is shown, select the fit cope operation.

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

3 . Once the fit cope 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 for step 1, you may want to set the selection filter to 'Material '.
  • Member(s) and materials on which the cope operation is performed are marked for detailing.
  • To edit the clearance of the cope, you must go into the Material Operations from the material edit screen.
  • 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.