Defeaturing

Defeaturing operation is intended for removal of the unwanted parts or features from the model. These parts can be holes, protrusions, gaps, chamfers, fillets, etc.

To create a Defeaturing in the active part:

  1. select in the Main Menu Feature -> Defeaturing item or

  2. click defeaturing.icon Defeaturing button in the toolbar.

After that select one or more faces of solids to suppress them. The Defeaturing works with faces from comsolids and compounds of solids as well.

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Defeaturing property panel

Input field:

  • Faces to remove panel contains the list of faces which should be suppressed.

TUI Command:

model.addDefeaturing(Part_doc[, faces])
Parameters:

  • part – The current part object.

  • list – A list of faces in format model.selection(“FACE”, shape).

Returns:

Created object.

Result

Result of Defeaturing is shown below.

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Defeaturing operation

See Also a sample TUI Script of Perform Defeaturing operation.

References

For more information, please, visit OpenCASCADE Documentation.