Fuse all connected shapes

[pruj-speed]

Hi,

I have a list of objects of type cadquery.occ_impl.shapes.Face. Many of these faces are connected but not all. Is there a way to fuse all connected faces?

Just to be clear, my definition of connected faces is being able to traverse from one face to another.

For example:

In the above image I would like to fuse faces [2,3,4,5,6] into a single shape. So the input list is 6 objects and the output list is 2 objects.

I will then thicken the two objects in the output list to create a conformal coating.

Any advice appreciated!

[pruj-speed]

I can completely avoid this problem if I move the for loop upstream in the logic. So this question can be ignored.