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[Sterling Butters]

I'm looking for a way to detect the portion of touching faces between two bodies. Is there a way to do this in SpaceClaim? For example, I would like to create the orange surface given the rectangular and sperhical bodies:

 

[Keyur Kanade]

There is no direct way. You can use Workbench → Share option to check these faces. 

Please go through help manual for more details 

Regards,

Keyur

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[peteroznewman]

Hi Sterling,

In SpaceClaim, on the Design tab, use the Combine tool. Select the block as the Target then select the sphere as the cutter object. It will subtract the two and leave you with a solid of interference and the block will have a spherical cavity in it.  You can delete the solid of interference if you don't want it.

You can create a surface from the cavity face by simply selecting the face and type Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V to copy/paste the face and create a surface.

Regards,
Peter

[Sterling Butters]

@peteroznewman That indeed does answer the question. I was attempting to provide a minimalist example to achieve my ultimate goal which is more complicated in my opinion. See, I was trying to get all wetted surfaces in a more complex geometry (imagine thousands of spheres and other terahedrons inside the rectangular prism). By creating the rectangular prism with the Enclosure feature, I was able to then detach all the associated surfaces and select the correct ones. I may make a separate post with a better representation of my problem and provide an answer there. Thanks for the help!