Part Defeaturing
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| Menu location |
|---|
| Part → Defeaturing |
| Workbenches |
| Part |
| Default shortcut |
| None |
| Introduced in version |
| 0.18 |
| See also |
| Defeaturing Workbench, Macro Parametric Defeaturing |
Description
The 
Part Defeaturing command can remove selected form features, such as holes, protrusions, gaps, chamfers, fillets etc. from a model.
The defeaturing command can be very useful in different contexts:
- To edit an imported solid where no history of operations is available.
- Fixing defects in the model, e.g. filling gaps, holes etc.
- Model simplification for numeric analysis, display on mobile devices, etc.
The removed form features are filled by the extension of the adjacent faces, thus no unexpected parts should appear in the result. Please note that the result is a new shape that is not linked to the original; thus, it is non-parametric.
To be available, this command requires FreeCAD to be based on Open Cascade 7.3.0 or greater. If it is not available in your version of FreeCAD, you may have a look at the Defeaturing Workbench add-on, which proposes similar functionality even with older versions of OCC or FreeCAD.
Usage
- Select the face(s) to be removed from the model.
- There are several ways to invoke the command:
- Press the
Defeaturing button. - Select the Part → Defeaturing option from the menu.
- Press the
- A Defeatured object is created and the original object hidden.
Links
- 3D Model Defeaturing, the official announcement on the Open Cascade collaborative development portal.
Part
- Primitives: Box, Cylinder, Sphere, Cone, Torus, Tube, Create primitives, Shape builder
- Creation and modification: Create sketch, Extrude, Revolve, Mirror, Scale, Fillet, Chamfer, Make face from wires, Ruled Surface, Loft, Sweep, Section, Cross sections, 3D Offset, 2D Offset, Thickness, Projection on surface, Color per face
- Boolean: Make compound, Explode compound, Compound Filter, Boolean, Cut, Union, Intersection, Connect objects, Embed object, Cutout for object, Boolean fragments, Slice apart, Slice to compound, Boolean XOR, Check geometry, Defeaturing
- Other tools: Import CAD file, Export CAD file, Box selection, Create shape from mesh, Create points object from geometry, Convert to solid, Reverse shapes, Create simple copy, Create transformed copy, Create shape element copy, Refine shape, Attachment
- Preferences: Preferences, Fine tuning
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