- The delete face command is one of the coolest
and most powerful commands inside of SOLIDWORKS.
Let me show you a little bit more about this command.
Now, we've looked at it in some of the previous courses,
and we've seen some of the power it can do.
I want to dive a little bit deeper
and show you what this command can really do.
First things first, let's jump up
and grab it from either the Surfaces toolbar,
or from the Direct Editing toolbar.
So, either one of those.
Grab it here: Delete Face.
Now, I've got three options here: I can either Delete,
I can Delete and Patch, or I can Delete and Fill.
Now, earlier we've used both the Delete
and the Delete and Fill,
but this time I want to use the Delete and Patch,
and really show you what that can do.
But before I do that, let's just look
at the basic Delete command.
Basic Delete: choose a surface or a face,
and just click on OK, that turns this into
a surface model only, I can look inside
and see exactly what's going on here.
That's not what I want to do here, though.
So, let's go back and get rid of that.
Hit Delete on the keyboard and now go back
to Delete Face one more time.
This time, we can go back to Delete and Fill
and this is exactly the tool we used earlier,
and what that's going to do is its going to fill in
a surface in the area we're going to remove.
So, in this case here, I can choose
these corners here, click on OK
and that just fills in a patch
of where that material was removed,
and that puts a new surface right there.
Okay, but again that's not exactly
what I want to do in this case.
So, let's go back and Delete that one one more time.
Okay, now Delete Face one more time,
and this time Delete and Patch.
That's basically just going to repair
the surface that was there and now is not.
So, first things first, click on these three faces here.
Click on OK, and it just removes that completely.
Goes back, this is one continuous surface,
I'm not patching or filling a hole in.
It's just removing those other faces
and just making it look like it was never there.
So, anytime you have something that's
maybe protruding through another surface,
maybe you've got like an extrude that happened
to pop through one side of a shape.
This is a great way to get rid of that,
and make your model that much easier.
Let's play with it a couple more times here,
Delete Face, Delete and Patch, how about these?
Boom, gone.
How about the inside of this one here?
Delete Face, click OK, again just takes it completely out.
Try again, and you can do it multiple times as well.
Right, a couple of those, bam.
Again, really, really powerful tool
and you can really get into this thing,
and just almost completely change a model.
Just using Delete Face.
All these faces here, click OK,
and it's as if it was never there.
Now, you still have this little corner of where that was,
again, I can get rid of that as well.
Delete and Patch, one more time.
Click OK, and there it is, we're back
to a fundamental pyramid from the beginning.
So, very, very cool feature, Delete and Patch or Delete Face
it can just remove all types of things,
and it just shows up as features inside your design tree.
So, it's a very, very, very cool feature,
it's very powerful and it really is a time saver
when you're working on complex models
and you have a lot of different features and it may be
intersecting and some things are just maybe protruding
or interfering, great way to get rid of them.
It's a very cool feature, that's Delete Face.