Offset Tool on 3D Surfaces

[Kevin McAllister]

I would really like the Offset tool to work on 3D surfaces, including both curved (ie. Nurbs) and flat surfaces.

Kevin

[Kaare Baekgaard]

It works rather well for me.

[Kevin McAllister]

Ok, I was able to get it to work this morning on some simpler surfaces but the intermediary step of Extracting surfaces or curves was needed. But you can step in from the edge of a curve, which is what I'm most interested in. Attached is an example. Note this curved surface is a pretty simple example (ie. parallel sides).

KM

Edited August 29, 2011 by Kevin McAllister

[Kaare Baekgaard]

Hi Kevin

I suppose I should read, "you can not step in". If you found a smart way to do that, I would like to know. The workaround for this is to use the shell tool on the curved surface of a duplicate, then subtract the shelled duplicate from the original, then extract the surface, you need, undo the subtraction and delete the shell.

[ramooo]

I support the petition. It will be very useful for components of complex geometries like this one.

Is there currently a tool to achieve something like that?

[zoomer]

Ok, I was able to get it to work this morning on some simpler surfaces but the intermediary step of Extracting surfaces or curves was needed. But you can step in from the edge of a curve, which is what I'm most interested in. Attached is an example. Note this curved surface is a pretty simple example (ie. parallel sides).

KM

+1