wbthicken component

Is it possible to have the wbThicken component extrude in both directions as the rhino.extrude command does. Thanks, Dan

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Permalink Reply by Giulio Piacentino on May 8, 2013 at 10:32am

Hi Dan

are you asking about this in general or you have a specific case in mind?

I am asking this because there are several recipes, especially when the mesh is non-2 manifold.

Giulio

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Permalink Reply by Danila Babko-Malyi on May 8, 2013 at 11:06am

Giulio,

One of the problems I am regularly running into is when I try to use the thicken component to create 'mullions' out of a center line surface I need to thicken in separate directions creating two meshes.

My current specific issue is creating an enclosed mesh volume for a boolean command. I have a gutter like condition with angled walls as shown below. I want to use the thicken component to create a mesh that would trim the panels shown out of the 'gutter' zone. However because I can only thicken in one direction I need to offset my surface creating a misalignment of my 'gutter' and boolean mesh.

Thanks for the help, Dan