Shell or Thicken Sheet

Modeling: ToolsShape Tools Shell Solid or Thicken Sheet

With this action you can hollow out a solid or thicken a sheet body to create a solid. That is done by subtracting a smaller but equally shaped solid from the original one. This can be quite useful if you want to create a structure with walls of equal thickness.

Shell:

Exclude a face from the shell action

If you pick a face before executing the shell action, the face will excluded from the shell action.

Example:Shell a waveguide

Pick the two end faces		Result of shelling inside
$image\shell1.gif$	Shell	$image\shell2.gif$
No picked faces		Result of shelling inside
$image\shell1.gif$	Shell	$image\shell2.gif$

Thicken Sheet:

Example:Thicken a sheet body

Select the sheet body

Result of thicken sheet inside

Thicken Sheet

Direction frame

Inside: The walls will be created to the inside direction of the original shape. The original shape will become the outside of the wall. The outside dimensions will not change.

Outside: The walls will be created to the outside direction of the original shape. The resulting shape will be bigger by the wall thickness.

Centered: The walls will be created by adding walls of half width to the outside and to the inside direction. The resulting shape will be bigger than the original one by half the wall thickness.

Example:

The original shape:

$image\shell00.gif$