Hello all,

While modelling multi bodies, often times I have ended upinadvertantly merging bodies which were meant to be seperate. Nowthe question is, whether a merge is similar to combine(addition).

I have seen that while we model a basic bigger part to a greatdetail and subsequently try to combine another body usingfeature->insert->part, the rebuild and the size of thefeature/part appears to be quite big.

On the contrary, if I posttion the small part butting the biggerpart and execute an extrude (of a simple geometry) through boththese parts (obviously at an insignificant location) for bothparts. The two parts are automatically combined, provided the mergeis checked and also the feature scope includes both these parts.

Also, I have found that the rebuild time is sharply lower in thelatter. Any clue?


thanks in advance


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