Part RefineShape

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Part RefineShape

Menu location
Part → Refine Shape
Workbenches
Part, OpenSCAD
Default shortcut
None
Introduced in version
-
See also
None


Description

Cleans its unnecessary lines. After a Boolean operation some lines defining the previous form remain visible, this tool creates a copy of the totally cleaned.

Use

  1. Select the shape to be cleaned.
  2. Click the Part → Refine shape menu.
  • A copy of the object is created and totally cleaned, the original object is rendered hiden.
  • The newly created copy is independent of the original.

Scripting

The Phyton command for refining a shape is the following:

shape.removeSplitter()

Note that the function does not modify the existing shape, but returns a new shape.