Delete Internal Geometry - Remove vertices help

Coding Python Support
1

Hello,

I am writing an automated process to optimise a large number of 3d models. For part of the process i want to remove all the internal geometry and keep the shell only. To do this i am trying to perform ray casts from each vertex to see if they are internal or external, i then create a list of theese vertices. My question is how do i delete a vertices from a mesh? I can see no option to do this. I have tried using:

vert.select = True
and then calling bpy.ops.mesh.delete()

but nothing happens.

Any suggestions on how to delete a vert and also any better ideas for removing internal geometry?

Thanks

Karl

2

I don’t know much about python, but I think it shoud be bpy.ops.mesh.delete(selection), or something else.
Just guessing, but I hope it helps.

If it doesn’t work, you should go into edit mode yourself, select some vertices, hit x and hover over the option you want. Look at the python tooltip, there stands the operation you’re looking for.

Wolfano

3

Thanks patmo, that seems to solve my problem. Doing this manually would take forever. I have 10,000 files!

K