Draft Downgrade/de

Description
The tool downgrades the selected objects in different ways.

The Downgrade tool performs things such as breaking faces, and deconstructing wires into their individual edges. It can cut a shape with another shape in similar way to.

The counterpart to this tool is the operation.



Usage

 * 1) Select one or more objects that you want to downgrade.
 * 2) Invoke the Draft Downgrade tool several ways:
 * 3) * Press the button in the Draft toolbar
 * 4) * Press the then  keyboard shortcut
 * 5) * Use the entry in the Draft menu
 * Note: If no object is selected, you will be invited to select one.

The selected objects are modified or downgraded, according to the following conditions, in order:
 * 1) If only one object is selected and it contains more than one face, each face becomes a separate object.
 * 2) If there are more than one face in the selection, the subsequent objects are subtracted from the first one.
 * 3) If there is only one face in the selection, it gets converted into a wire.
 * 4) Otherwise all wires found in the selection are exploded into single edges.

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

Scripting
Draft API and FreeCAD Scripting Basics.

The Downgrade tool can be used in macros and from the Python console by using the following function:


 * Downgrades the given, which can be a single object or a list of objects.
 * If is, old objects are deleted.
 * If is given, it is the internal function to call to force a certain way of downgrading. It can be:, , , , , , or.
 * is returned, which is a list containing two lists: a list of new objects and a list of objects to be deleted.

Example: