Creating Thick Surfaces

Thick Surface lets you add material to a surface in two opposite directions.

  1. Select the element you want to thicken, that is the extrude element.
  2. In the 3D area, the arrows that appear on the extrude element indicate the first offset directions. If you need to reverse a direction, click the corresponding arrow.
  3. Select the Smoothing mode 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.

  4. Click OK.
    The surface is thickened. The tree is updated.