# Bolean operation with tolerance?

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/bolean-operation-with-tolerance/15444>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [October 20, 2021, 1:42am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/bolean-operation-with-tolerance/15444 "2021-10-20T01:42:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Errehache](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Errehache](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Errehache)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 1:42am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/bolean-operation-with-tolerance/15444/1 "2021-10-20T01:42:47Z")

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I know there has been some discussion about tolerances. It would be great that with a single operation we can apply tolerances to the operation. Possible?

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**Author:** ![KPeter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/kpeter/32/7644_2.png) [@KPeter](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/KPeter)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 12:09pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/bolean-operation-with-tolerance/15444/2 "2021-10-21T12:09:12Z")

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Hi, that is possible if you offset the faces or scale up the body that you wish to remove before applying the Boolean. Have you seen any other software where this feature was live? I expect a lot of confusion caused by the tolerance as it could make the boolean fail even if the bodies would be possible to apply the boolean to.

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**Author:** ![TheBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@TheBum](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/TheBum)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 3:13pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/bolean-operation-with-tolerance/15444/3 "2021-10-21T15:13:18Z")

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Or you could just offset the faces after the subtract. If you select all the faces and offset them as a whole, they will in most cases offset the way you want.

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**Author:** ![Errehache](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Errehache](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Errehache)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 1:08am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/bolean-operation-with-tolerance/15444/4 "2021-10-26T01:08:29Z")

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I have not seen myself. But apparently onshape has something like this