Defeaturing automatically identifies and removes small features that CAE analysts typically want to eliminate from a 3D model prior to meshing. Increasingly CAE analysts work from the same models that are used for design and manufacturing, but these models often carry much more detail than is appropriate for simulation or analysis purposes. By removing unnecessary detail, Defeaturing simplifies the model, a process that typically is done manually at a significant cost. The feature recognition parameters of Defeaturing are easily configured to achieve the level of detail desired by the analysis engineer. Exposed as a single API, Defeaturing can be implemented in a single day by an experienced programmer.
Key Features of Defeaturing:
- Automatically identifies and removes specified feature types
- Handles fillets, chamfers, and round holes
- Filters by feature size
- Filters by feature type
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| Original model |
Holes and fillets less than
R2.5 automatically recognized |
Recognized features removed |
