Defeaturing Workbench

FreeCAD Defeaturing WorkBench
Defeaturing WB is intended for editing STEP models, removing of the selected features from the model..

Features:

Defeaturer: a set of tools to edit a Shape or a STEP model, removing holes, faces, simplifying the model, change the tolerance...

There are also tools to create more solid shapes, from edges, faces or shells.

These defeaturing and repairing tools work with FreeCAD 0.15, 0.16, 0.17 and 0.18. More advance defeaturing tools can be used if OCC7.3 are available.

Tools
Detailed description TBD

Removing Holes

YouTube Tutorial Defeaturing-WB-@Work

Automatic installation
- automatically using the FreeCAD Add-on Manager (bundled in to 0.17 dev version under Tools Menu)

From GitHub
- manually by copying the Manipulator folder to the Mod sub-directory of the FreeCAD application.

FC Defeaturing WB github page

Supports

 * FreeCAD v0.15 4671
 * FreeCAD v0.16 >= 6712
 * FreeCAD v0.17 >= 11707