Curve: Make Wire

Function

Make Wire constructs wires with edges, which exist in the 3-D space.

Call

Geometry > Curve > Make Wire

<Make Wire>

Method

Multi Entity

Select all the edges that will be formed into a wire.
 

Single Entity

Select one edge.  The selected edge and all other edges, which are connected to the selected edge, will become a Wire.

Tolerance

Specify a Tolerance within which edges are considered to be connected.  If two edges are apart more than the tolerance, an open wire will be created.

After a Make Wire operation, the source edges disappear and only the combined single wire remains.  Although edges are formed into a wire, the information of edges exists as sub-shapes constituting the wire.  However, you cannot select individual sub-shapes.  You can disintegrate a Shape into Sub-Shapes using such commands as Explode.

Notes

A wire is a set of edges.  The wire retains the edges as sub-shapes.  Accordingly, if a wire is extruded, a shell is created, which is a set of faces created from individual edges.  

For this reason, if a face needs to be created by extruding a number of edges, Make Wire should not be used.  Instead, those edges should be converted into a single edge by Merge Edge first before creating a face.