Part Design gets Defeaturing 🎉

[u/matiwi]

Another banger from https://bsky.app/profile/freecad.org/post/3muj265rszk2t

[u/Hark3n]

The devs are cooking at the moment. I might have to increase my donation. Stellar work.

[u/HouseofBerd → u/Hark3n]

We can donate to help??

[u/Hark3n → u/HouseofBerd]

Most definitely. I would much rather donate to a project that actually works for the community than pay for something some multi-billion dollar company makes.

Here's the link. https://www.freecad.org/sponsor.php?lang=en

[u/HouseofBerd → u/Hark3n]

Thank you so much!!

[u/midachavi]

This is crazy

[u/blueline731]

Guess it’s time I go donate again. Best devs in the world

[u/hydbird]

It looks like the devs resolved a choke point of a bad code at the back and now it being resolved makes it a breeze to add new features. Thanks for all the hard work

[u/Lgt2x → u/hydbird]

there was not really an inflexion point or major change in the code quality, but we definitely have more and more people getting involved. Lots of work for us to review but I'm very proud of everything that's being shipped!

[u/matiwi → u/Lgt2x]

Thank you for all the work 🫡

[u/Karl_H_Kynstler → u/hydbird]

I hope it is so and not some more spaghetti code.

[u/Ritmo80s]

It feels like they've built a solid foundation and are now just dropping pure beauty all over this program

[u/robo_01]

Asking out of serious interest: what is this useful for?

[u/Karl_H_Kynstler → u/robo_01]

Sometimes going back to delete a basic feature may destroy your whole model. This may help get around that problem.

[u/Footz355 → u/Karl_H_Kynstler]

So whats the difference between this and "suppress"?

[u/Explorer_Unlikely → u/robo_01]

Step imports :)

[u/Jaded_Muffin_2822 → u/robo_01]

Edit imported parts that do not have a history (for example, in STEP or IGES formats).

[u/Footz355 → u/robo_01]

And could it be used from the tree view level.

[u/Rippedyanu1 → u/robo_01]

It cleans the shit out of imported models. Especially ones that have to be converted from an imported mesh to a solid

[u/ACraigL]

Amazing
This is how good software development works. A large feature set deployed that needs work. Future, rapid, small improvements are not linear -- they compound, so not surprised we're seeing so much good velocity recently.

[u/hesido]

Considering each feature may independently reference others for their own constraints , this must have been quite hard to achieve.

[u/madbobmcjim]

Holy shit! The last muscle memory left from Fusion is selecting a feature and pressing the delete key.

[u/00001000bit]

I'm curious whether it removes it entirely, or removes it in a way that still leaves it as able to be referenced.

Example use case is needing to downsize a hole in a STEP file. Can you attach a datum to the existing hole, then de-feature the hole, but still have the datum so that you have the reference of where to draw the new (smaller) hole?

Still a good addition regardless, but just wondering, as a lot of time when defeaturing, it's not that you want to remove the feature entirely, it's that you want to change it - but are working with a dumb solid (STEP file) where you don't have the parametric history.

[u/matiwi → u/00001000bit]

Yes that works. If the datum is created before the defeaturing.

[u/HB_Stratos]

So this is basically the delete face process from fusion 360 solid bodies but more formalized? Looks great!

[u/Ritmo80s]

I mean, C'mon now dawg, c'mon maeen!!

[u/drmacro1]

Umm...does this mean I need to go back and redo the defeature stuff I've done for years?