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