Lesson 30_thicken Tool

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Lesson

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esson Object ive:In this lesson, we will learn about the Thicken Tool.

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HICKEN TOOL USAGE

The Thickentool is used to create a thin-walled protrusion or cut by adding thickness about a quilt

surface.

SING THE THICKEN TOOL

The thicken tool is located on the feature toolbar, and looks like the following.

You must select a quilt surface before this tool will become active. To demonstrate the thicken tool, w

will open up the BBS2part. It looks like the following.

If you rotate this model, you will notice that these surfaces have not been merged yet. Therefore, tha

the first thing we are going to do. Change your selection filter to Quiltsand select both surfaces (usi

the Ctrlkey). Once both surfaces are selected, click on the Mergetool. Flip the arrows as necessar



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until you see both sides shaded in yellow, as shown in the next figure.

Click on the green check mark and we will now have one large surface quilt. To clean up the display

the model, we will right click on the Style id 33and Project 1features in the model tree and select H

to temporarily turn off the display of these features. When hidden, the model tree shows them with a

gray box around the corresponding icon, as shown in the next figure.

The model will now look like the following.



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With the Quiltsfilter still active, pick this entire surface so it highlights, as shown in the next figure.

Once this surface is selected, click on the Thickentool. We should see the following.

IMPORTANT NOTE:Sometimes, the side to be thickened is not the one you want, and based on the

default wall thickness selected by the program, one or more surface quilts may fail as it tries to thicke

You will get a warning indicating that certain regions can not be thickened, and it will ask you if you w

to exclude them.



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Say NOto this message. Then, you can adjust the thickness and flip the direction if necessary. If it

fails, then you may have to fix your model or adjust the wall thickness.

For our model, the default side was the outside. We want to click on the yellow arrow to flip it to the

inside, and change the wall thickness to 5.0. Our preview will look like the following when this is don

If we were to open up the Optionspanel, we can see similar options to the Offsetfeature. After all, a

wall thickness is very similar to an offset where the volume is added at the same time. The following

figure shows this Optionspanel.

In the dashboard, we see an icon for adding material and one for removing material. In our example

are adding material, but the process is exactly the same for removing material.

Click on the green check mark to complete this feature, and our model will look like the next figure.



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Save and close this model for a later lesson.

ESSON SUMMARY

The Thickentool is used to add or remove material uniformly about a surface quilt. Be careful not toexclude surfaces if it initially fails, because it might just be an issue with the thickness value or mater

side that results as a default.

XERCISES

Open up the Project_Exercisepart that we have been working on. It looks like the following.

We will add a 0.25round on the intersecting edge between the handle and the top, and then thicken

part to the inside with a wall thickness of 0.05. The final model will look like the following figure.



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Save and close this model for a later lesson.