Cope & Part Features
At a glance
- Create fishmouths, offset copes, branch holes, miters, slots, and cut-outs
- Place drilled or wrapped features on the actual face of the structural section
- Keep parametric features attached when source geometry updates
Tube parts can carry manufacturing features without flattening the whole job into anonymous curves. Select a part and use Cope / Notch or Add Feature to define the cut in terms of the stock and the face where it belongs.
Copes and end cuts
The Cope tool creates the intersection between the selected tube and a mating round tube or structural prism. Set the mating size, angle, and offset to build fishmouths and branch openings. End-cut overrides provide straight, mitered, or coped ends without replacing the part's source.
Holes, slots, and cut-outs
Features can be drilled straight through an exposed face or wrapped onto the tube surface. Face-aware placement matters on open sections: a hole on the outside of a channel flange may be reachable while the matching inside face is blocked by the stock itself. JetCad3 reports that condition before posting instead of silently dropping the feature.
Slots and cut-outs follow the same surface model. Feature previews show the affected face and the wrapped result before the edit is committed.
Source updates
Feature definitions remain separate from the imported or linked source. When a Drafting body changes, Update from Drafting rebuilds the Tube part and reapplies its features. If the changed shape no longer supports a feature, JetCad3 identifies the problem so it can be moved or corrected.