Re: SolidWorks Tip: Delete Face

rickyjordan — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:52:52 -0000

Hi Dave,

First and foremost, thank you for asking the question.

With a feature like this I can think of 3 common situations in modeling where the use as I have shown it would be beneficial. (I'm sure there are more, but these are the three that popped into my head :-))

The first situation would be where you have an imported model that has no features. Your entire solid model comes in as a single imported feature so you don’t have the luxury to delete any individual feature.

The second situation would be where you are looking at a feature that may have multiple references further down the feature tree. To remove or suppress this feature would result in the suppression of additional features. You could remove the relationships and proceed with deletion of the feature but in some cases the removal of this geometry might be temporary, (like for FEA analysis) so it is sometimes easiest to handle it down at the bottom of the feature tree using Delete Face without having to modify multiple features.

The third situation deals with instances where you design multiple parts using the multi-body functions in a single part file. If you are designing a plastic housing assembly it can be advantageous to use this method if the geometry of one “half” need to have curvature continuity or share features with the other “half”. For use in assemblies the Split Part command can be used to separate the multiple bodies into individual part files. In cases like this the separated part files of the case halves will not have individual features. It will have a “Stock part” feature that ties it parametrically to the multibody master file. If you need to use this individual part externally for FEA analysis or export to another system, you can remove features with the delete face command without having to mess with the original geometry. Again, in this situation this would be for temporary changes.

For situations 2 & 3 if the removal of the feature is permanent, I would remove the feature altogether by deleting the feature.

I hope this makes sense to you. If it doesn’t, let me know and I can elaborate more.

Thanks for the comment and thanks for reading my blog!

Best Regards,

Ricky Jordan
http://www.rickyjordan.com

Re: SolidWorks Tip: Delete Face

Dave — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:23:55 -0000

Couldn't you have just as quickly deleted the feature in the feature manager to remove the two circular cuts? I'm new to SW. so perhaps I don't see the advantages of this tip right away.

thanks
Dave

Re: SolidWorks Tip: Delete Face

Unclefastguy — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:45:53 -0000

Stolen directly from CATIA v5. Nice to have Dassault as the parent company now. All that nice functionality in v5 now in SW and at a much lower price!!!!

Re: SolidWorks Tip: Delete Face

Tan Wei — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:38:19 -0000

thanks very much!

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