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Offseting a surface, creating a surface from the outside faces of a solid

User: "Rafał Szypulski_22596"
Altair Community Member
Updated by Rafał Szypulski_22596

Hello!

Is there a way to create a surface from the outside faces of a solid body? I've included two attachments. I have a solid body on which I would like to lay a surface - thus far I've only managed to extract the midsurface. Maybe there is a way to offset the newly created midsurface so it corresponds to the outside faces of the solid? Thank you in advance.image

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    User: "PaulAltair"
    Altair Employee
    Updated by PaulAltair

    If you just want the bounding surfs, you can change selector to surfaces, select them and CTRL-C CTRL-V

    e.g:

     

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    Does that do what you need?

     

    User: "Rafał Szypulski_22596"
    Altair Community Member
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    Updated by Rafał Szypulski_22596

    If you just want the bounding surfs, you can change selector to surfaces, select them and CTRL-C CTRL-V

    e.g:

     

    image

    Does that do what you need?

     

    Yes, that's exactly what I've been looking for. Thank you Paul. However, that still baffles me - is there truly no way to offset a surface in HM?

    User: "PaulAltair"
    Altair Employee
    Updated by PaulAltair

    Yes, that's exactly what I've been looking for. Thank you Paul. However, that still baffles me - is there truly no way to offset a surface in HM?

    No, it is easy enough, You can offset surfaces with surface offset tool. But it won't work on faces of Solids, unless you separate the surfaces from the solid first. I'm not sure what your end goal is here, I thought you were asking about offset to get a midsurface back to the outside? But now you have the outside surface already why do you need the offset?, Are you trying to change the dimensions of an existing solid?

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