topic Re: Unable to thicken the faces or create a modeled body in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Unable to thicken the faces or create a modeled body

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 02:32:39 GMT

Hello,

I tried to thicken the faces to create a modeled body for 3D printing but unable to do so. Please check the faces with tag "Need to thicken 4 faces".

Link: https://a360.co/2zHqtvu

Regards,

Vinno

Re: Unable to thicken the faces or create a modeled body

jeff_strater — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 03:35:57 GMT

I found it a little hard to work with this model because it is transparent. But, if you do a section view on the bottom face, you can get a better idea of what faces to select. Use Press/Pull, select a face, set the mode to New Offset, and select the other 3 faces you want to thicken.

screencast:

Re: Unable to thicken the faces or create a modeled body

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 04:36:05 GMT

Hi Jeff,

Sorry to hear that you found it hard to work with my opacity.

I've tried as what the screencast showed but it looks like only the dimension was increased and not the wall thickness. Can you please help me to make the wall thickness to 2 millimeter for the 4 faces?

Thanks,

Vinno

Re: Unable to thicken the faces or create a modeled body

jeff_strater — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 16:05:20 GMT

I'm not sure what you mean by "wall thickness" here. Those areas of your model are fully solid. Are you looking to convert those to hollow regions? I'm not sure where, if anywhere, you want openings. Anyway, here is one way to do this. Go back and change the extrusion from "Join" to "New Body" and then shell that body, Split it, Remove the part in the middle, and Combine it back into the main body:

Re: Unable to thicken the faces or create a modeled body

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 17:28:46 GMT

Hi Jeff,

Thank you for your patience.

I didn't notice that those areas are fully solid based on what I see, so I performed a section analysis and it's indeed fully solid. Thank you for guiding me and resolving this. Thanks!

Regards,

Vinno