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How to copy the face of a body?

Member, Developers Posts: 17 ✭
in FeatureScript
Given a body, how can I copy a planar face owned by that body?
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  • Onshape Employees, Developers, HDM Posts: 565
    Stay tuned for the release of opExtractFace, which will do what you describe.

    In the mean time, what do you intend to do with copy? In many cases you can directly use the original face, without creating a new surface.
  • Member, Developers Posts: 17 ✭
    I was shifting it to a different position and using it to create a new solid.

    I will look forward to opExtractFace. For the time being,  manually creating a sketch of the surface adds less than a minute to my workflow, so not a big deal. If I get impatient, I have a good idea of how to write a tool using existing operations.

    Thanks
  • Onshape Employees Posts: 727
    @jason_bennett190
    You can try using the face itself in feature creating the new body (New option in extrude etc.) and moving the newly created body, if that makes sense.

  • Member Posts: 113 EDU
    kevin_o_toole_1 said:
    Stay tuned for the release of opExtractFace, which will do what you describe.

    In the mean time, what do you intend to do with copy? In many cases you can directly use the original face, without creating a new surface.
    hello kevin, I could not find anything about opExtractFace, for the moment i was doing offsets of 0 mm to get a copy of the face, but my issue is that they do not share the same points in the boudaries with the other "copied" faces, so the model is not watertight, did you find any work around this?
    best regards, franco
  • Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 5,839
    @Otaola_Franco - opExtractFace is a FeatureScript function. Through the UI  you are doing it correctly. What are you trying to achieve? If you copy 2 adjacent faces then all boundaries and vertices will match. If you want to knit them together use Boolean.
    Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEA
  • Member Posts: 408 PRO
    if anybody stumbles over this thread looking for an 'extract face' functionality.
    a 0 offset offset faces works. but this custom featurescript may look cleaner and in your feature tree.

    I'll be using it with 'delete original faces' set most of the time in my surfacing work.

    https://cad.onshape.com/documents/779f5788eaaef8fbd16e4633/w/df3a0ee440fca5e27758ad14/e/0b50ca056c3037b1df28d85b



  • Member Posts: 3,276 PRO
    If this also had an option to untrim the face(s) that would be very useful.
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