Creating a Shell

Shell lets you shell a feature by emptying it, while keeping a given thickness on its sides. Shelling may also consist in adding thickness to the outside.

  1. Select the face to be removed.

    The selected face becomes purple .

  2. In the Inside thickness and the Outside thickness boxes, enter the required values.
  3. In the Other faces box, select the other faces to be thickened with different thickness values.
    The selected face becomes brown .
  4. In the Other thicknesses box, click and in the table that appears, do the following:
    1. In the Inside thickness and the Outside thickness columns, enter the required values.
    2. Repeat the step a for other faces.
    3. Optional: In the table, click next to the element to remove it from the list.
  5. Click to propagate the specified thickness to the faces tangent to the selected faces.
  6. Select the Smoothing from the following types:

    • None: No smoothing is applied. This is the default option. The Max deviation box is unavailable.

    • Manual: Smoothing is applied as per the maximum deviation. The default value is 0.1 mm.

    • Automatic: Smoothing is applied automatically.

  7. Click OK to create the shell feature.