About Removing Shapes

Remove Feature 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.

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See Also
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 pointer

Remove operation accomplished on the cutout

About the Wall Types

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

  • Use body thickness:The active shelled body's thickness is used as the wall thickness.
  • Enter thickness: Enter a value. When this option is selected, the Thickness box becomes available. Wall thickness values must be positive.
  • Use feature thickness: The thickness of the target feature (the feature you want to modify) is used as the wall thickness.

    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 can do one of the following:

    • Set the thickness value to 0mm in Shell Properties before running Remove Feature.
    • In the Remove Feature dialog box, set Enter thickness and assign the required value.

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: is the inward direction of the target wall. It means that "inside" 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 inside the shellable prism

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