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Intersect tool

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Intersect tool

- [Instructor] The intersect tool is a great tool for using a surface or a plane to slice up a solid body. Now right here on the screen, I've got this block. And I've got a surface actually that I've created that goes right through the center of my block. And I want to use that to intersect the two together and create two separate bodies. Now right over here, under solid bodies, you can see I only have that one block, right, and then I've got the surface body here, this going right through it. Now if you don't know how to create a surface or your probably done already, let me show you how to do that, I need you to turn on the surfacing toolbar. So come up here to any one of these tabs, right click on it and come over here to tabs and come over here to surfaces. Here's my surface toolbar. And I'm going to use this tool called the extruded surface. So I'm going to go ahead and delete the one I have right here first, so go ahead…

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