Remove a Face

General

  • You can delete one or more selected surfaces from the model.
  • You can choose to trim adjacent surfaces when removing surfaces, in which case the adjacent surfaces are trimmed together so that the part becomes an intact surface model.
  • You can use the function to remove an incorrectly shaped surface that you want to replace with a tangential surface.

Remove a Face

  1. Select the ribbon bar function Part | Faces | Remove Faces or
    • Import | Faces | Remove Faces.
  2. Select one or more surfaces.
  3. Select Confirm (Confirm = V key, middle mouse button or the context-sensitive OK.).
    • The program opens the dialog box Delete Surface.

  4. Define surface removal in the dialog box.
    • If you select the Trim connected surfaces, the selected surfaces is removed, and their next surfaces is trimmed so that the model is kept as the closed volume.
    • With the Add button, you can still add surfaces to be removed.
    • With the Change button, you can change the surface selected for deletion to another surface.
    • With the Delete button, you can remove the selected surface from the list of surfaces to be deleted.
  5. Preview by clicking the Apply button in the dialog box.
    • If necessary, you can still edit the feature data.
  6. Select OK.

Removing selected surfaces

  1. Select one or more surfaces.
  2. Select the context-sensitive function Faces> Delete.
    • The program opens the dialog box Delete Surface.
  3. Continue as above, steps 4...6.

Example

  • The planar surface has been removed to add a tangential surface