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Click Child Plate System Command to display the Child Plate System Ribbon.
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Select the parent plate system.
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Click Define Boundaries .
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Define the child plate system boundaries using one or more of the following methods:
Pick boundaries
Use the Boundary List Dialog
Define a boundary curve -
Click Accept .
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If the boundary definition results in more than one solution, you must select bounded areas that together compose the total bounded area. Pick the needed solutions using the following procedure
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Set the remaining child plate system properties.
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Click Finish.
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The new child plate system references, but does not copy, the surface geometry of the selected parent plate system.
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If you change the parent surface geometry, all child plate systems that reference that surface geometry also change.