Material Exact Fit Command

Cuts the material you select to fit around other material(s) that you select.

  • Step-By-Step
  • Undo
  • Tips and Tricks
  • Related Tools

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

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

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

3 . Select one or more material(s) you want the material selected in step 1 or 2 to be fit 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" cuts the material.

Method 1:

1. Open the cut 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 Exact 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 Exact 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 exact 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 exact operation.

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

3. Once the fit exact 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 '.
  • Exact Fit likely employs more cuts than would result from your using Fit Cope .
  • Member(s) and materials on which the cuts are performed are marked for detailing.
  • To edit the clearance of the fit operation, you must go into the Material Operations from the material edit screen.
  • Doing an Exact Fit 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 an unrolled surface template for non-fit cutting operations such as Cut on Plane , Cut Layout , etc.