# Replace face with more than one STEP face

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/replace-face-with-more-than-one-step-face/22865>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Created:** [December 6, 2022, 5:52am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/replace-face-with-more-than-one-step-face/22865 "2022-12-06T05:52:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Peter\_b](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/85f322/32.png) [@Peter\_b](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Peter_b)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 5:52am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/replace-face-with-more-than-one-step-face/22865/1 "2022-12-06T05:52:34Z")

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Problem: Replace face can ot be used on more than one STEP face

Description: Replace face should connect to more than one face on a STEP object

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Replace face to the whole or parts of the marked STEP faces are not possible.

Cant achieve: connection to multiple faces of a STEP file

workflow blocker? Is this why you can’t use Shapr3D for work? Is this slowing you down?\*

Yes it slows down, some things can not be achieved or at least not easily. The mighty replace face command is downgraded when working with STEP files.

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**Author:** ![Istvan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/istvan/32/23668_2.png) [@Istvan](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Istvan)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 9:17am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/replace-face-with-more-than-one-step-face/22865/2 "2022-12-06T09:17:59Z")

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This is supported already. If it does not work with the STEP file, it’s most likely due to the low quality of the imported geometry.

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**Author:** ![Peter\_b](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/85f322/32.png) [@Peter\_b](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Peter_b)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 10:54am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/replace-face-with-more-than-one-step-face/22865/3 "2022-12-06T10:54:12Z")

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Ok could you report what and exactly where the problem is or is that a separate feature request? Just leaving the user with doesn’t work is frustrating sometimes. (and there is not much in Shapr that doesn’t, but with STEPs you do encounter those moments)

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**Author:** ![Matt\_the-Rathje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/49beb7/32.png) [@Matt\_the-Rathje](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Matt_the-Rathje)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 11:08am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/replace-face-with-more-than-one-step-face/22865/4 "2022-12-06T11:08:22Z")

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🤦‍♂️  
Holy Miss Moly!  
YOU encounter problems with YOUR STEP-File(s), because they are from questionable quality and made from free-form-features.  
You may spam the whole forum with “Feature-Requests”, but that would not change anything.  
As Istvan already stated in annother of your countless treads complaining about things not working:  
You need a tool that works with free-form-modelling-features - and this is not Shapr3D.  
Shapr3Ds Features work pretty fine with rule-based-geometry (may it in STEP-format or not) - that is what it is designed for!  
Again: what you are doing here is trying to eat soup with a fork… No “feature-request” you place here here will make a spoon from that fork!

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**Author:** ![Peter\_b](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/85f322/32.png) [@Peter\_b](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Peter_b)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 11:26am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/replace-face-with-more-than-one-step-face/22865/5 "2022-12-06T11:26:55Z")

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That’s not helping Matt, you are getting impolite, just ignore my posts if you dislike them please. Yes I get problems imported STEPS which is not the problem here. A problem is if a Shapr command does not work but at the sam time does not make clear what happens. I am quite sure the Shapr team is interested in this feedback. I also think the Shapr team recognises a weakness of Shapr with imported files.