Multiple Surface Selection when Thickening

[I_Forge_KC]

When thickening a surface into a solid, the option exists to chain surfaces or pick an individual surface. In Inventor, the user has the ability to pick mulitple surfaces (which are tangent) without picking the entire chain.

A use case might be during the development of an overmolding process where the base geometry is offset up and away to give the overmold a uniform thickness. The overmold may not need to be a true offset from the surface and may have other details - so the need is there to offset many parts but not necessarily the entire surface.

[HughesTooling]

I don't have anything to test on at the moment but have you tried holding the Ctrl key down while selecting, in most commands this lets you add to the selection. ON a mac it the command key.

Mark

[HughesTooling]

Sorry should have read a bit more carefully a picture from inventor would have help.

Mark

[jakefowler]

Hi @I_Forge_KC,

If Chain Selection is deselected, and you pick multiple adjacent faces, you should be able to select part of a surface body and thicken it into a single connected solid:

Does this match what you were describing? Or does this still not achieve what you are trying to do?

Thanks!
Jake