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Thickening a faceted surface body

Use the Thicken tool to add thickness to a surface faceted body.

 

To thicken a surface faceted body:

  1. Create or import a surface faceted body.
  2. Click the Thicken tool
  3. Choose a thickening Direction in the options panel
  4. and enter a thickness value in the options panel
  5. Select the surface faceted body.
  6. Exit the tool or Undo, change the options, and reselect the surface faceted body.

Options

The following options are available to control thickening:

Inside

  • Add thickness to the inside.
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    Outside Add thickness to the outside.
    Thickness Enter the thickness value in model units.
    Fix intersections Fix intersections that occur because of the thickening.

     

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