Sometimes, you may have a number of separate solid bodies on one solid object definition, and you want to make one of these bodies an individual 3D object. As the name suggests, the separate command is used for that specific task. To start the separate command, you can type SOL and then press Enter to open the solid editing option list. Select Body, and then select seParate solids, as shown in the following screenshot:

If you are using the 3D Modeling workspace, you will find the Separate button in the Solid Editing panel on the Home tab, or in the Solid Editing panel on the Solid tab, as shown in the following screenshot:

If you have a 3D object that contains multiple non-intersecting bodies, the separate command can be used to redefine one or some of them as individual objects as follows:

1. Start the separate command.
2. Click on the body to be separated.
3. Exit the body editing list, and then the solid editing list to end the command.

The following diagram is an illustration of the previous steps:

That's it for the separate command. Now, let's have a look at the next solid editing tool, which is called the shell command.