from solid to surface

Alex,

Seems like the long way around the barn,,,

insert-feature-shell

Mark

There are a number of ways. The most straightforward in some ways is to use offset surfaces of your existing solid with an offset of 0 to make a new surface, then thicken it. A similar approach is to use the knit surface tool to knit all of the surfaces of your existing solid, again making a new surface that you can thicken. A trickier approach is to delete a face on your solid. This will turn it into a surface part with a hole in it. Use the fill surface tool to replace the missing surface, then thicken the part.

If the surface part can't be thickened, you might need to offset surfaces yourself. In that case, you should probably just offset surfaces at your desired thickness from the original solid. You will have to split the offsets up to work your way around the parts that cause the thicken to fail. Use the mutual trim option on the surface trim tool to make a water proof inner surface, then use cut with surface to subtract out the interior volume.

Jerry Steiger Tripod Data Systems "take the garbage out, dear"

Use the shell feature. Read the help first.

snipped-for-privacy@hottubs2buy.co.uk wrote:

Try "Delete Face", using the option to remove the face without healing. this gives you a surface body of the entire solid minus the face you deleted.

Need to keep the deleted face? Before delet> Alex,

Hey Tick,

Why're you answering me,,,, ;>)

If you read his post, it sounds like what he's trying to "do" is create a shelled part.

He probably had to jump through all those hoops with the last system he used, and doesn't know any better.

Mark

Considering the replys I would love to see your part. Can you zip and post it at

Double-whammy! Need to reply with more precision AND understand original post better!

Sorry.