Simplifying a Part

Generally, creating features makes the part more and more complex because it gradually adds faces to the resulting geometry.

This task shows you how to quickly simplify a part so as to make FEM analyses easier and faster.

Open the  Tasks_5.CATPart document.

  1. Click the Automatic Feature Recognition  icon .
    The Feature Recognition dialog box appears.
     

  2. Simplifying a part means removing some of its faces created by fillets, holes or chamfers. For the purpose of our scenario, select Holes and Fillets.

  3. Select RemoveFace only.

  4. Click OK to confirm the operation.
    All the fillets and holes have been removed. Four RemoveFace features appear in the specification tree.