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This video shows how to use Shell Holes creatively to create correct connections between Shells
in cases where the normal trim function does not give us the desired result.
We have these two Shells and it we trim them to each other… the result is not what we
want to achieve. We need to come up with another solution to this scenario.
Let us view the two Shells on the Floor Plan. Let us create a Section Line that goes through
the center point of both Revolved Shells. Let us open this Section Viewpoint.
In the Section we can see how the two Shell bodies intersect. We are going to cut off
unneeded parts of these Shells by defining Holes for each.
Let us use auxiliary circles because the Shell bodies are segmented and this may not give
us the exact intersection points of their bodies. The center points of the Circles coincide
with the center points of the Shells.
If we connect the two intersection points of the two circles, this gives us the line
along which we need to cut these Shells.
So we just select one of the Shells, activate the Create Hole in Shell command of the context
menu and create a triangular hole which will cut off part of the Shell on the right side
of our line.
Let us use the same command on the other Shell and create such a triangular Hole for it in
a similar manner. We can now select both Shells and view them in 3D… we can see that they
connect perfectly to each other.