Using the Intersect Feature

I use "Add" and "Cut" many times but never used intersect in all of my projects - not seems to be a popular feature

EDIT: I might  use it while using mutual trim. By the way, thank you for bringing this up. Look back some of my projects, I'd have the result quick & easy by using intersect tool instead of mutual trim

I used it for this - The 10th Weekly Power-User Challenge (September 15th, 2017): Measuring Wine Carafe

It is great for "filling volumes"

todd

Hi Matt

I don't use it often, but the odd time I have I'm glad it's there. 

I recall it was useful in this model by one of our interns.  We had a lot of angles going on without a right angle in sight.  Intersect was a great way to simplify all the compound angles

It was quite a nice project and Im a bit sad it never got made.  The tables and the benches were just different configurations of the same model.  It was possible to drastically change all of the geometry, and the intersect command worked really well

I attended a session led by SW personnel at the SWW when "intersect" first became available several years ago. Towards the beginning of the session the presenter made a comment that this was a new command and SW was not really sure of how it might be put to use. I appreciate that type of "challenge". I have used it, largely for volumes like Todd Blacksher, a number of times. I still think it's one of those commands unknown to a lot of users who have done similar thngs in other ways.

For a bit, I was using the intersect feature to create rectangular plates (rectangular prisms) using 6 planes. 

Similar to the video and part that I show in this thread:  Challenge!

The reason that I was doing this was because of the robustness of using planes for attaching mates to rather than the actual geometry.  This way, the planes are already there and I don't have to create extra ones for the mates.

I haven't used it in a bit, though because modifying said feature (plane) from the assembly is a bit of a pain.

I do recall, when I was still learning Solidworks, an example of how to make a fan blade. A large thin circle would be created, then an extruded profile would be used to capture the intersect between the two to form one of the blades.  I have a very bad and quick example I made with pictures to show you the basics of my process. I did a brief search on google for an example of this process but I had no luck.

Matt

For me, the Intersection feature almost replaces both the Combine and Split features with a better tool. Combine is pretty limited, and Intersection will do a split without leaving the sketch sitting in your feature tree. It would be nice if Intersection could use a sketch curve the way that Split can do.

• Intersection will add and subtract bodies without having to commit to one method or the other. You can change strategy without havng to make a new feature.
• Intersection will both add and subtract in one feature.
• Intersection adds surfaces and planes to your Combine feature options.
• Intersection adds the ability to make bodies from the negative spaces, which Combine cannot do.
• Intersection will consume surfaces (yay!).

Dwight

I use the intersection feature now and then. As well as the examples above I have also used it to defeature a multibody part. If a client wants to send out a 3D model to a customer they want the data defeatured enough to hide internal details. I take the multibody part, intersect with a large overlapping body (the filling), then combine all. One filled solid body made ready for export.