Turning a plate to a surface?

[Anonymous]

Is it possible to transform a part (in the form of a plate) into a surface?

What I am trying to do, is produce a series of surfaces from a series of plates to build a massless representation of my model with no thicknesses, just the geometry. So for example, if I had a part which was a square plate, 50mmx50mm and 10mm thick, is there anyway to transform this to a surface located at the 5mm half way point?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[Ktelang · Accepted solution]

Yes, you can

Use thicken/offset with surface option.

Then in surface bodies folder you will find the new surface created.

switch to the manage > Author> Export objects command and export the surface.

Open a new part and derive > reuse surface> and create the derived part.

Hope that helps

[Anonymous]

Thanks a lot, thats very helpful.

Although I'm struggling to find the reuse surface option after ive exported the surface and gone to derive in a blank new part file? How do i get to this?

Thanks

[Ktelang · Accepted solution]

Sorry my bad,

the icon with the + sign next to the surface body is

"include". Ignore the "reuse surface" frommy previous post

[Ktelang · Accepted solution]

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