PDS:Build Piece Tool
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Use the Build Piece tool to create a new piece from a different piece or pieces.
This tool is commonly used for creating facing, pockets, cuffs, etc., by extracting pieces from a master pattern (a Map).
Advantages in comparison to Trace Segments Tool
- Works faster – fewer clicks are required in order to select the desired area.
Disadvantages in comparison to Trace Segments tool
- The Build Piece tool does not always select the correct area. However, certain actions can be taken in order to improve its functionality. Refer to Build Piece Tool Troubleshooting.
- When building a piece with intersecting internals or from intersecting pieces, some grading points that were not on the original pieces might appear in the new piece, at the precise point of the Intersection.
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Icon & Location
Operation
- Invoke the Build Piece tool.
- Click in the area of a piece.
- Keep clicking on new areas until the piece needs to be built.
- Re-click over the Highlighted area to create the new piece.
1. Creating a belt for low-rise pants. Internal contours are created with Create Parallel.
Click in the center of the area
Click in the center of the area
2. The selected area is highlighted
3. The new piece is created
4. Important – Move the piece, so it is no longer on top of the original piece
5.
6. By Closing The Dart a new belt is perfectly created
Building A Piece From Intersecting Pieces
7. The Sleeve and Back piece of a Raglan are on top of each other
8. First click
9. Second click
10. Third click – the new piece is created
11. The piece is Moved aside
Keyboard Shortcuts
- Shift – deselects a selected area.
12. The left side area was selected by mistake
13. The left side area was re-selected with the shift key, and was thus deselected
Related Preferences
- When Using The Build And Trace Tools Create Internals From The Overlapping Contour
- Preferences for Build, Trace and Map Zone tools
