I am currently working on my thesis project and struggling with the part where I want to join different surfaces, which are created using the same curves, so I can offset them in a unified way. Right now, I have five different surfaces which, for whatever reason, simply don’t want to merge, so they are offset separately and create overlaps that I don’t want. I don’t understand why I cannot join the surfaces, even though I am using the same edge curves. Do you have any suggestions on what might help? The goal is to have one solid union in the end. Thanks a lot in advance, I really appreciate the help!
I have seen this problem many times when creating complex boat designs. What works for me is to start with one surface and use its edges to create the next surface. Brep Edges
Thanks again for your advice. I have to admit, I didn’t know this feature existed, it’s super helpful! I just gave it a try and it still doesn’t work unfortunetly. Maybe I’ll find a different solution or maybe you know a different approach as well?
Thanks @Quan_Li and @Joseph_Oster. Joining the Brep already helps a lot. I tried baking the surfaces, joining them in Rhino and offsetting them just to check, if there is an issue with the geometry. But in Rhino it seems to work, I just can’t figure out why the Offset Surface doesn’t work in this case Again, thank you very much for the help
Offset Surface works on one surface (or face of a polysurface) at a time. Adding thickness to a polysurface is the holy grail of CAD problems. Not always easy to do.
Again, thank you very much for the help
