Exact wall thickness
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Sorry if this is answered somewhere else. I did a quick search to find a plug in or something in the program that would do this.
Basically, certain 3D printers require a minimum wall thickness. for some printable materials it's 1 mm for example.
now I know for a simple flat side I can push pull to that thickness. However, is there a way that a complex or curved open shape (like a bowl) to be clicked on and "thickened" to a specific wall thickness? I've attached an image to better explain what I mean. The underside of this flying saucer is hollow. I want to make the blue or reversed sides extrude a couple millimeters. again, sorry if this is a simple thing and covered somewhere else.
thanks guys!
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I think there may be some plugin somewhere, but as I do not use them ... I would simply copy the surface, then scale it down, put it at the right place, create the flat and intersect everything to finish the thickness
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Jim Foltz's 'simple_shell' will work on a manifold [solid] form [needed for 3d printing anyway?] - however, the wall thickness of a 3mm shell isn't exactly 3mm all round - it might do though [it uses scaling about a center]...
Fredo's JPP [JointPushPull] has been recently updated to give a more constant thickness 'shell' - however, an exact constant shell thickness for multiple facets at a vertex is impossible to calculate...
Note that you might have problems making very small faces [<~1mm] so scale x10 and then do the 'shell', then scale down x0.1 before exporting [small faces can exist but making them is the trip-hazard...]
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