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How do I create a solid from a surface in WF2.0? If it helps, all open ends on my surface are in orthoginal planes (TOP, and 2 planes offset from FRONT).
Thicken worked alright... but it's not really what I was looking for. And, I can't seem to cut material away from my thickened sketch using an extrusion. It makes the extrusion do all sorts of crazy things including a seeming reverse of add/remove material.
Anyhow... is there an explanation floating around for the "solidify" command? I just found that, but can't make it work. My guess is that it's essentially the 3D version of "paint bucket" tool in graphics program - at least I hope so.
Here is the par I'm struggling with... I only want to solidify the surface, not extra construction lines.
A "solid" is a volume definition with a few additional attributes; density, etc.
If you have a surfaced volume definition you can "Solidify" it and use solid modeling functions.
Not sure what you want to do with that shape but if turning it into a solid block is the goal, cap front, top, back (to obtain the volume def) and Solidify.
(FWIW, I'd also look at other ways of modeling that shape. In particular I think I'd try creating the flare as (a) discrete feature(s) after defining some "foundation" shapes similar to attached.)
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