Draft Trimex

Description
The Trimex tool trims or extends Draft Lines and Draft Wires so that they end at an intersection with another line or edge.

The Trimex tool also extrudes faces created from closed wires. In this sense, it's similar to Part Extrude and to PartDesign Pad.



How to use

 * 1) Select a wire you wish to trim or extend, or select a face you wish to extrude.
 * 2) Press the  button, or press  then  keys.
 * 3) Click a point in the 3D view, or enter a distance and press.

Trimming or extending is decided from the position of the pointer.
 * If the wire is short it can be extended to approach and cross another wire.
 * If the wire is long and crosses another wire, the excess length can be trimmed.
 * If the pointer is moved over another object or edge, the trim-extend operation will snap to that object or edge, so that the resulting wire ends exactly there. This snapping works even without Draft Snap modes active.

When the selected object is a face, the Trimex tool switches to mode. In extrude mode the extrusion is done in the direction of the normal of the face. For example, if a rectangle lies on the XY plane, it should be extruded in the Z direction. To do this correctly, pressing the key may be necessary to constrain the distance to the Z direction. Alternatively, hold the key to extrude in any direction that is not the normal.

Options

 * pressing will constrain you to the segment currently being trimmed or extended
 * pressing will invert the direction of the trimming

Scripting
Draft API and FreeCAD Scripting Basics.

There is no programming interface available for the Trimex tool. See the Part Extrude tool for extrusion of faces and other shapes.