Thanks Travis but I dispute - Help says an open element will do it, and that does indeed produce same result as a closed one. And that result, as I say, is to remove the cut-off part of the Form(s), same whether or not Split Solid is checked. I do want to Split the Form(s), keep both parts. I suppose it would be totally unreasonable to expect Bentley to document vital bits of info like this in Help (or anywhere coordinated) instead of it emerging unexpectedly as MS folklore, that unwelcome Feature info will get stored when using this tool (and Construct Opening - what other Solids manipulate/modify tools also do that?) Would it also be too much to ask to add another toggle to the overloaded Tools Settings box so that the operation could optionally be done as a simple 'break' without ramifications? I mean, is there any good user-reason, that I'm missing, to store the event as Feature information? By Stretch you mean Modify Form Modify the height of a Form To Imaginary Line? AFAIK MS Modify Element won't? I cd equally do that by Modify Solid Entity (push/pull). Apart from the fact that I specifically don't want to lose either part of the element(s), which I will if doing it by Modify Form (or Stretch) - I did look to see if there's a Split Solid or Keep Profile type option in those, but no. Gor blimey, roll on the comprehensive re-think (we hope) with 64bit. But how can a sleek new organism maintain backward compatibility with a mutated monster? Maybe phased extinction reqd. Excuse the rant, but really ...
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