dmThicken

Pro, Platinum Pro, Platinum Pro, Platinum

Creates 3D solids by thickening (i.e. adding thickness to) surfaces, their faces, faces of 3D solids, regions and wire entities.

The following wire entities are accepted: lines, polylines, circles, ellipses, arcs, helices, splines

Accessing the Command

command bar:  dmthicken

menu bar:  Model | Direct Modeling | Thicken

toolbar:  Direct Modeling |

: dmthicken

Prompts you in the command bar:

Select entities/subentities to thicken: (Select a face of a solid, a surface or a wire entity.)

Entities in set: 1

Select entities/subentities to thicken: (Select more solid faces or surfaces or press Enter.)

Specify thickness value:  (Specify a point or type a value.)

The thickening direction is perpendicular at every point to the selected entity or entities. If you thicken a multi-face surface of several adjacent faces of one 3D solid/surface, then the corresponding faces remain adjacent on the opposite side of the new 3D solid(s). This differs the DmThicken command from DmExtrude.

From left to right: extruded faces of a prism - thickened faces of a prism - thickened face of a cylinder - thickened fillets.

When a wire entity is selected, a circle with the radius of the specified thickness value is swept along the wire:

Command Options

No command options.

Related Commands

dmExtrude - creates 3D solids or 3D surfaces by extruding closed 2D entities, faces of 3D solids, regions or closed boundaries. Optionally adds volume to solids or removes volume from solids.

Sweep - creates a 3D solid by sweeping a closed 2D entity along a path.