Group Substraction

Group substraction produces a group containing all elements of the main groups but not present in the tool groups. To create a Group Substraction in the active part:

  1. select in the Main Menu Features - > Group Substraction item or

  2. click group_substraction.icon Group Substraction button in the toolbar:

The following property panel appears.

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Create a group substraction operation

Input fields:

  • Name defines the name of the group, by default, it is GroupSubstraction_n.

  • The list of main groups. Multiple selection can be done manually in OCC 3D Viewer by mouse click with Shift button pressed or by rectangle selection. To delete entities from the list, select them and call pop-up menu Delete item.

  • The list of tool groups. Selection approaches are the same as for the main groups.

Note, that operation is valid only if all the main groups and all the tool groups have the same type.

TUI Command:

model.addGroupSubstraction(Part_1_doc,
[model.selection("COMPOUND", "Group_1"), model.selection("COMPOUND", "Group_2")],
[model.selection("COMPOUND", "Group_3"), model.selection("COMPOUND", "Group_4")])
Parameters

  • part – The current part object

  • list – A list of main groups

  • list – A list of tool groups

Returns

Created group.

See Also a sample TUI Script of Create Group Substraction operation.