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<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>
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<td class="ctEven">OpenSCAD → Refine Shape Feature
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<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>
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<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.
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<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>
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<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>
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