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Revision as of 22:03, 22 January 2016
Part RefineShape |
Menu location |
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Part → Refine Shape |
Workbenches |
Part, OpenSCAD |
Default shortcut |
None |
Introduced in version |
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See also |
None |
Description
Cleans its unnecessary lines. After a Boolean operation some lines defining the previous form remain visible, this tool creates a copy of the totally cleaned.
Use
- Select the shape to be cleaned.
- Click the Part → Refine shape menu.
- A copy of the object is created and totally cleaned, the original object is rendered hiden.
- The newly created copy is independent of the original.
Limitations
- The refinement algorithm only works on shells. Therefore it iterates over the shells of the input shape and then for each shell it creates a new shell with joined faces wherever possible. This means if your input shape is only a face, wire, edge or vertex then the algorithm does nothing.
- Opposed to RefineShapeFeature in OpenSCAD workbench, this feature won't update when the underlying shapes are changed
Scripting
The Phyton command for refining a shape is the following:
shape.removeSplitter()
Note that the function does not modify the existing shape, but returns a new shape.