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4. Click OK to create the new surfaces.
5. Expand the folded model in the Browser.
6. Locate the Composite1 feature, which you created with the Copy
Objects tool, and turn off its visibility.
The next step is to translate the shape of your clearance onto the model. You
can use a couple of different tools to do this, but the one that keeps you closest
to a typical sheet-metal workfl ow maps the perimeter of where the surfaces
meet as a 3D sketch and then uses that to defi ne your cut-out.
You'll begin by creating a 3D sketch.
Creating a 3D Sketch
3D sketches have hundreds of uses, and without the tool you wouldn't be able to
calculate the intersection easily:
1. In either the Sheet Metal or Modeling tab, expand the Create 2D
Sketch tool and pick the Create 3D Sketch tool.
The 3D Sketch tab appears and becomes active just as the Sketch tab
does for a 2D sketch. Some of the tools will seem familiar, but a num-
ber of tools extract geometry from existing sources to form the 3D
sketch. One of those tools is the Intersection Curve. This tool creates
an edge at the intersection of surfaces, which is exactly what you need.
2. Select the Intersection Curve tool from the 3D Sketch tab's Draw panel.
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