Saturday, July 30, 2011

How to create surface by offsetting an existing surface

1)Click the offset icon
the offset surace definition dislog box  appears.
2) select surface to be offset
3)Specify the offset by entering a value or using  the grafic manipulator.

the offset surface is displayed normal to the reference surface

4) An arrow indicate the proposed direction for the offset.
You can invert the direction by clicking either the arrow or the reverse direction button
5)Click OK to create the surface

the surface (identified as offset.xxx)is added to the specification tree.

Use the repeat object. Ok click box to create several offset surfaces, each separated from the initial surface by multiple of the offset value.

Simply indicate in the object repetation dialog box the number of instances that should be created & click ok.

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