Offsett a BRepBody

[florian.pommereningDGUYA]

I'm looking for a way to offset a temporary BRepBody by a given distance, i.e., make it larger by pushing its edges outside. Is there any way to do this with the API?

[BrianEkins · Accepted solution]

The temporary B-Rep capabilities are fairly limited and do not support the ability to offset a body.  A workaround is to create a body in a base feature and then use features to create the offset. I tried some things interactively and found the Offset Face command does this when you select all of the faces of the body.  Unfortunately, I also found that the API doesn't currently support the creation of the Offset Face feature (OffsetFacesFeature).  However, I also found Offset command, which creates a new body and the API does support the creation of this feature (OffsetFeature).

[florian.pommereningDGUYA]

Thanks. It looks like this only works on open bodies, so I'm not quite sure if I can make it work. But it looks like this is the only option.