<html><head><title>OpenSCAD RefineShapeFeature/en</title><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><link type='text/css' href='wiki.css' rel='stylesheet'></head><body><h1>OpenSCAD RefineShapeFeature/en</h1></div> <div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"><hr/><div class="mw-parser-output"><table class="fcinfobox wikitable ct" > <tr> <td class="ctTitle"> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="OpenSCAD_RefineShapeFeature"><a href="https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:OpenSCAD_RefineShapeFeature.png" class="image"><img alt="OpenSCAD RefineShapeFeature.png" src="32px-OpenSCAD_RefineShapeFeature.png" width="32" height="32" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/9/93/OpenSCAD_RefineShapeFeature.png/48px-OpenSCAD_RefineShapeFeature.png 1.5x, /wiki/images/9/93/OpenSCAD_RefineShapeFeature.png 2x" /></a> OpenSCAD RefineShapeFeature</span></h3> </td></tr> <tr> <th class="ctOdd">Menu location </th></tr> <tr> <td class="ctEven">OpenSCAD → Refine Shape Feature </td></tr> <tr> <th class="ctOdd">Workbenches </th></tr> <tr> <td class="ctEven"><a href="OpenSCAD_Module.html" title="OpenSCAD Module">OpenSCAD</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th class="ctOdd">Default shortcut </th></tr> <tr> <td class="ctEven">None </td></tr> <tr> <th class="ctOdd">See also </th></tr> <tr> <td class="ctEven">--- </td></tr> <tr> <td class="ctToc"><br /><div id="toc" class="toc"><div class="toctitle"><h2>Contents</h2></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#OpenSCAD_RefineShapeFeature"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">OpenSCAD RefineShapeFeature</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Description"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Description</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Use"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Use</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Limitations"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Limitations</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Notes"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Notes</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </td></tr></table> <p><br /> </p><p><br /> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Description">Description</span></h2> <p>Cleans unnecessary lines. After a Boolean operation some lines defining the previous form remain visible, this tool creates a copy of the totally cleaned. </p><p><a href="https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:PartRefineShape_it.png" class="image"><img alt="PartRefineShape it.png" src="PartRefineShape_it.png" width="447" height="277" /></a> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Use">Use</span></h2> <ol><li> Select the shape to be cleaned.</li> <li> Click the <span style="background: #DDDDDD; border: 1px solid #888888; padding: 0px 5px 1px 5px;">OpenSCAD → Refine shape</span> menu.</li></ol> <ul><li> A parent-object is created and totally cleaned, the original object is rendered hiden.</li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Limitations">Limitations</span></h2> <ul><li> 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.</li> <li> As opposed to <a href="Part_RefineShape.html" title="Part RefineShape">Part refine shape</a> in the Part workbench, this feature <b>WILL</b> update when the underlying shapes are changed.</li></ul> <p><br /> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Notes">Notes</span></h2> <ul><li> the function does not modify the existing shape, but returns a new shape</li> <li> the function is normally used as last step in the modelling history</li> <li> the function can help to get difficult fillets to work</li> <li> the function is intended to stop 3D printers from printing unwanted edges </li></ul> <p><br /> </p> <div style="clear:both"></div> </div> </div> </div><div class="printfooter"> Online version: "<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=OpenSCAD_RefineShapeFeature/en&oldid=284465">http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=OpenSCAD_RefineShapeFeature/en&oldid=284465</a>"</div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"></div><div class="visualClear"></div> </div> </div> <div id="mw-navigation"> <h2>Navigation menu</h2> </body></html>