I found a way to parametrically thicken a surface using the existing v .13 build.Re: New Part Offset and Part Thickness tools
Postby normandc » Thu Nov 29, 2012 3:18 am
A question: in the CAD software I use at work, there's a "thicken" command to give thickness to a surface or a shell and transform it into a solid. The edges are extruded normal to the surfaces. Could Part Thickness be eventually modified to add this functionality? Or does the OCC API not support this?
It's a little bit of a hack but it works.
1) make surface 1, I used separate sketches and lofted a surface
2) offset the surface without a fill
3) switch t the draft module and use the facebinder to clone each face
4) loft between two faces that were cloned with facebinder, make sure to set solid to true
You now have a thickened solid which you can use in boolean operations. See images below demonstrating it: