Clean faces
Introduction
The geometric operation Clean faces allows removing one or more faces and filling its using neighbor entities.
This functionality can be used to:
- Clean engraved or incrusted inscription, which are not necessary for the modeling
- Clean locally many configurations with (hole/slot/fillet…)
Options « shell»
The user have the possibility to choose:
- NO: Clean only the selected face without search the shell cleanable
- YES: Clean the shell of faced detected around the selected face.
| OPTION | Detected shell | Result |
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| YES |
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| NO |
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Access
The different accesses of the geometric operation Clean faces are:
- By menu:
- By icon:
Limitations
Few limitations :
- Impossible to clean faces of several objects. Select only faces of the same object
- No preview available at the creation and at the modification
- This functionality does not work on any face; the successful of the cleaning of the face is strongly linked to the neighboring configuration of the geometry.
Example
Here is an example of cleaning of faces:
| Stage | Description | Illustration |
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| 1 | Inscription to clean |
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| 2 | Selection of the letter U |
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| 3 | Cleaned letter U after a Clean faces |
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| 4 | Selection of others letters F L and X |
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| 5 | Cleaned letters F L X after a Clean faces |
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