Draft Downgrade

Description
The tool downgrades the selected objects in different ways.

The Downgrade tool performs things such as breaking faces, and deconstructing wires into their individual edges. It can cut a shape with another shape in similar way to.

The counterpart to this tool is the operation.



Usage

 * 1) Select one or more objects that you want to downgrade.
 * 2) There are several ways to invoke the command:
 * 3) * Press the button in the Draft toolbar
 * 4) * Press the then  keyboard shortcut
 * 5) * Use the entry in the Draft menu
 * Note: If no object is selected, you will be invited to select one.

The selected objects are modified or downgraded, according to the following conditions, in order:
 * 1) If only one object is selected and it contains more than one face, each face becomes a separate object.
 * 2) If there are more than one face in the selection, the subsequent objects are subtracted from the first one. This modification is similar to.
 * 3) If there is only one face in the selection, it gets converted into a wire.
 * 4) Otherwise all wires found in the selection are exploded into single edges.

Options
There are no options for this tool. Either it works with the selected objects or not.

Scripting
See also: Autogenerated API documentation and FreeCAD Scripting Basics.

To downgrade objects use the method of the Draft module.


 * contains the objects to be downgraded. It is either a single object or a list of objects.
 * If is  the source objects are deleted.
 * forces a certain way of downgrading by calling a specific internal function. It can be:, , , , , , or.
 * is returned. It is a list containing two lists: a list of new objects and a list of objects to be deleted. If is  the second list is empty.

Example: