Draft Upgrade

Description
The Upgrade tool upgrades selected objects in different ways. If no object is selected, you will be invited to select one.

The Upgrade tool performs things such as creating faces and fusing different elements. This tool works with 2D Draft elements. To fuse 3D solids use Part Fuse and related Boolean operations of the Part Workbench, and PartDesign Boolean of the PartDesign Workbench.

The counterpart to this tool is the Draft Downgrade operation.



How to use

 * 1) Select one or more objects you wish to upgrade.
 * 2) Press the  button or press  then  keys.

The selected objects are modified or upgraded according to the following conditions, in order:
 * 1) If there are more than one face in the selection, the faces are merged (union).
 * 2) If there is only one face in the selection, nothing is done.
 * 3) If there is only one open wire in the selection, it gets closed, making a face.
 * 4) If there are only edges in the selection, all edges are joined into a wire, and the wire is closed if possible.
 * 5) If none of the above is possible, a compound object is created.

Options
There are no options for this tool. Either it works with the selected objects or not.

Scripting
The upgrade tool can be used from python scripts and macros like this:


 * Upgrades the given object(s) (can be an object or a list of objects).
 * If delete is True, old objects are deleted.
 * The force attribute can be used to force a certain way of upgrading. It can be: makeCompound, closeGroupWires, makeSolid, closeWire, turnToParts, makeFusion, makeShell, makeFaces, draftify, joinFaces, makeSketchFace, makeWires
 * Returns a dictionnary containing two lists, a list of new objects and a list of objects to be deleted

Some of the operations of the Upgrade tool can also be made with the Part Union or Draft Wire tools.

Example: