More about Remove Features

The Remove command lets you modify one or more features by removing a shape from it. The removing shape can be a prism, a sweep, a revolve, a thick surface or the shape of an external body or surface.

This topic provides you with the information you need to create the remove features.

The following are discussed:

Related Topics
Removing a Shape

Remove Command and Protected Volumes

After you have generated a remove feature from protected volumes, for example from a cutout, material is generated as illustrated below:

Cutout pointed by the cursor

Remove operation accomplished on the cutouts

About the Wall Area

The Wall option lets you set if, or how, the Remove Feature command creates walls along the removing surface. To define a wall, you can set one of the options available from the drop down list:

  • Use body thickness: the feature wall thickness is that of the active shelled body thickness.
  • Enter thickness: simply enter the value you want. After this option is selected, the value box becomes available. Wall thickness values can only by positive values.
  • Use feature thickness: the feature wall thickness will be the same thickness as the target feature (the feature you want to modify).

However, if the target feature has no thickness parameter in its definition (for example if the target feature is an external feature, the Remove Feature capability assigns the thickness value defined in Shell Properties to the wall. If this behavior does not meet your needs, you still can: 1) Set the thickness value to 0mm in Shell Properties before running Remove Feature. Or: 2) In the Remove Feature dialog box, set Enter thickness and assign the value you need.

Direction:

You can control whether the wall is constructed inside or outside of the selected profile. The default behavior is an inside wall thickness.



Inside:

Inside is the inward direction of the target wall. It means that "inward" is relative to the solid shellable volume being modified such as the shellable feature, not the modifying volume such as the cut/remove/intersect feature.

When the wall direction is inside, the wall will be constructed inward of the Shellable Prism.

When the wall direction is outside, the wall will be constructed outward of the shellable prism.