Creating Primitive Surfaces

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There are four commands in the Surface menu for creating simple solid shapes using surfaces:

Creating Primitives, Slab command icon Primitives, Slab

Creating Primitives, Sphere command icon Primitives, Sphere

Creating Primitives, Cylinder command icon Primitives, Cylinder

Creating Primitives, Cone command icon Primitives, Cone

These surfaces can be created dynamically by setting one or more of the parameters controlling the shape's dimensions to <Digitise>.

However, to be able to digitise the third dimension of the shape you will need to have at least one extra view port active.

 

Please note that these commands are PDI add-in options and do not support Intellisnap picking. To select entities you can use either of the following methods: