Build >> Combine Shells

• Build >> Combine Shells command simply merges shells into one shell.

• Build >> Combine Shells can be applied to more than two shells at a time.

• During the combining process, overlapped regions on shells remains as they are.

Step   

Execute Build >> Combine Shells command as follows:

1. Select Build >> Combine Shells from the menu or click the corresponding icon from the Build toolbar.

2. Select more than two shells to be merged simultaneously. ( See Shell selection ) The color of the selected shell's bounding box changes to blue.

3. If a user clicks the right mouse button while executing this command, the following pop-up menu appears.

Select Pause to temporarily stop the current command and change to input ready state. Then, a user can use virtual trackball. A check mark appears in the front of Pause command in this state. Select Pause once more to resume the stopped command.

4. When a user selects more than two shells, Done on the right mouse shortcut menu is enabled. Select it to complete this operation.

5. If All on the pop-up menu is selected, all the shells shown in the working window are combined.

Result

• A new name which is made by connecting the names of two shells which are to be combined using 'and' is assigned to the combined shell. The name of a shell can not have more than 128 characters, so all the characters exceeding this length limit are ignored.

Note  

• This operation is same as applying Edit >> Paste command after performing Edit >> Copy command for multiple shells.

Before applying Combine Shells	After applying Combine Shells

• This command is texture preserve command. So if user don't have Color workbench license, rapidform shows a below message.

If user select OK, texture will be removed after execution, If Cancel, execution will be canceled.