{"id":170868,"date":"2023-06-05T07:05:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T07:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/ansys-spaceclaim-i-inserted-a-tapped-cosmetic-hole-into-my-solid-and-it-created-a-separate-inner-thread-in-the-structure-tree-if-i-delete-this-the-tread-is-removed-how-do-i-combine-this-cosmetic-in\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:33:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:33:56","slug":"ansys-spaceclaim-i-inserted-a-tapped-cosmetic-hole-into-my-solid-and-it-created-a-separate-inner-thread-in-the-structure-tree-if-i-delete-this-the-tread-is-removed-how-do-i-combine-this-cosmetic-in","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/ansys-spaceclaim-i-inserted-a-tapped-cosmetic-hole-into-my-solid-and-it-created-a-separate-inner-thread-in-the-structure-tree-if-i-delete-this-the-tread-is-removed-how-do-i-combine-this-cosmetic-in\/","title":{"rendered":"ANSYS SpaceClaim: I inserted a tapped cosmetic hole into my solid and it created a separate inner thread in the structure tree. If I delete this the tread is removed. How do I combine this cosmetic inner thread into the solid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no way to combine the inner thread with the solid. The inner thread is essentially a surface, and surfaces cannot be combined into solids. You could move the inner thread and the solid into a new component, but you wouldn&#8217;t actually be combining the inner thread into the solid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-170868","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-4422","topic-tag-ansys-spaceclaim-directmodeler","topic-tag-edit-group","topic-tag-general","topic-tag-geometry","topic-tag-preprocessing-geometry","topic-tag-structural-mechanics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2\/6\/2023 20:20"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27789"],"_bbp_author_ip":["209.182.204.162"],"_btv_view_count":["255"],"siebel_km_number":["2048391"],"product_version":["18"],"km_published_date":["2017-02-22T00:00:00.000Z"],"family":["Structural Mechanics"],"application_name":["ANSYS SpaceClaim DirectModeler"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/170868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/170868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}