Thicken multiple surfaces

[alasdair_crawford]

Trying to convert a surface model to a solid, best way appears to be by using "thicken". When I try to do this, I can click on each surface to add it to the selection to thicken, but I can't just drag a box selection over everything. If I box select before choosing thicken, it deselects everything. The model has hundreds of surfaces so I don't want to select them individually. Does anyone have iLogic code which can either select them all and thicken them, or cycle through them one by one and thicken them all?

Thanks

[J-Camper]

@alasdair_crawford,

If the surfaces form a water tight mesh then use the sculpt command.  You will want to window select the surfaces then click the sculpt command and chose the new part option.

If the surfaces do not form a watertight mesh then use the Stitch command before thicken.  Thicken will not let you select faces from different entities.  You can use the Stitch command to combine any surface entities into a single entity, choose the "maintain as surface" option inside the command form.  Then you can thicken that new surface by widow selecting all faces.

[alasdair_crawford]

Thanks @J-Camper, I'll give that a shot