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Subtract: local operation

See also: Subtract.

Menu access: Shape | Subtract

Description:

Allows you to locally subtract a shape from another one.

General philosophy:

  1. Select on the  LOCAL OPERATION  button.

  2. Select the shape(s) to modify.

  3. Select the shape(s) to subtract to.

  4. Choose the faces of elements which will be used in the operation.

Available option(s):

The  Hide tools= YES  or  NO  option allows you to set the subtracted shape invisible or not after the subtraction.

 You can enter a radius in order to compute a fillet on the intersection edges of the operation.

Spécific point(s):

When selecting the faces to use, you must select ALL the faces that are necessary for the operation. If some needed faces are not selected, the result may be incorrect.

On the part above, we want to locally subtract the green shape to the middle of the blue shape.

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Here is the faces to select on the shape and the result we get:

If we do not select all the faces, here is the result we may get:

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