Making a mold
The surfaces do not have any draft angle on the edges. The sides, and many of the interior surfaces, are square to the adjacent surfaces so it cannot be thickened. You also cannot copy the surface, patch the two surfaces together and stitch all together because of the same reason.
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When a piece of plastic is thermoformed over this, it deforms in itself as needed, the Fusion 360 surface cannot do this. I personally do not see a way to do what you desire. I created a simple surface which does not have 90 degree edges to itself and it will thicken easily, even the sharp corner. It is attached.
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@TheCADWhisperer wrote:
@evanp4509U4JZ wrote:
... Any idea of a software that can do this in a more automated manner?
I am always confounded by the abilities of things.
The basic issue is not a software issue.
The basic issue is that the part is poorly modeled by the human.
If the part were modeled correctly this would work fairly easily.
Period!
More to the point, fusion has difficulty offsetting near tangent edge and surface conditions, which this model has a ton of. it also has some other weirdness you can see in some of the pics.
if it only needs to be rendered visually, you can export a stl and thicken it in a mesh editing software. it will still take some massaging to get a nice result.
