.. _free_faces_page:

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Free faces
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This mesh quality control highlights the faces connected to less than two mesh volume elements. The free faces are shown with a color different from the color of shared faces.

.. image:: ../images/free_faces.png
	:align: center

In this picture some volume mesh elements have been removed, as a result some faces became connected only to one volume. i.e. became free.

**See also:** A sample TUI Script of a :ref:`tui_free_faces` filter.
