Insert Mesh Separate

The Separate Mesh command enables you to separate a triangular mesh in different parts, by selection or by disconnected shells.

• In the Mode drop-down list, choose the way the mesh will be separated:
  • Selection — the selected facets will be grouped in a new mesh and removed from the initial one.
  • Shells — the selected mesh will be separated: one mesh for every disconnected shell (set of connected facets) is created.
  
  
• If the chosen Mode is Selection, select the set of facets you would like to extract from the original mesh.
  
  
  
  
• Otherwise (using Shells option), select the mesh you would like to separate.
  
  In the Shells drop-down list, separate the selected mesh into all the disconnected shells (by using the All option) or select and extract only some of them (by using the Select option).
  
  
• You can specify what to do with the original mesh. In the Base Entities drop-down list, select one of the following:
  • Modify — to apply the changes to the original mesh.
    
  • Hide — to hide the original mesh, though keeping it in the model.
    
  • Keep — to keep the original mesh, leaving it visible.
    
  
  

• The command can assign automatically a different layer and color for each created Mesh part. In the Layer increment and a Color increment boxes under More Options, you can specify the increase in layer and color between a part and the next (the layer is the one displayed in the Layers tab; the color number is the one displayed in the color palette: see also "Setting and Modifying the Color").

Initial mesh	Disconnected parts