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- INT Menu: SETOP
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- Creates a new solid entity consisting only of the coincident portions of two
- interpenetrating original entities.
-
- 1. (IND) first solid for intersection
- 2. (Y/N) confirm choice
- 3. (IND) second solid for intersection
- 4. (Y/N) confirm choice
- 5. (Y/N) keep the result ?
-
- Description:
- This command creates a new entity consisting only of the coincident portions
- of two original interpenetrating entities.
- Parameters 1 and 2 ask you to identify the first entity, and confirm your
- choice. Parameters 3 and 4 do the same for the second entity. The system will
- display the resultant entity, and ask you (parameter 5) if you wish to keep
- it.
- The result of this process is a complex solid entity (data-type 9). If only
- one of the entities involved in this operation is an axial wall the result is
- a complex wall that continues to possess wall characteristics but the commands
- \chaw, \chaa, \fixw, and \fixa no longer function.
-
- Example: \int (ind) y (ind) y y
-
- Result: The coincident portions of the two original entities are now a new
- entity.
- Limitations
- 1. It is recommended to execute \int on entities of the same color otherwise
- the color of the resultant entity is unpredictable.
- 2. When two entities exist in different layers, the resulting solid will
- reside in the layer of the first entity.
- 3. If there is no interpenetration between the two entities they will both be
- erased.
- 4. The number of \int commands that may be executed on any entity is limited
- by the maximum of 200 points on any one of its polygons. You will be
- notified if you go beyond this limit.
- 5. It is not possible to execute \int on negative entities.
- 6. This command will not operate on placed entities that contain a negative
- solids or 2D entities.