The new command ApplyThickness might become the best new command for our work process!
We work with sheetmetal models and the possibility to “visualize” thickness but keep the original surface is fantastic.
A few questions:
-When using the Section command it of course only cut through the surfaces, is it possible to add an option that cut´s through the “thickness”?
-It might be cool to add the function to create closed polysurfaces/closed extrusions from the surfaces with “thickness”
I know, that’s the beauty of it! Super light models eg.
Select all surface → mesh might work as well for now.
But as you can understand the function to control thickness is for many engineering companies a huge step forward.
With a little scripting it should be possible to create a “real” material library with the applythickess command to control the thickness of the plates. (eg. 5mm alu, 6mm steel)
For now we use solid plates (closed polysurfaces) and extract the marking side of the plate when unrolling for production, so:
surface → solid → surface
A time consuming process.
There are two options I’d explore for this now. The first is to use ExtractRenderMesh on the thickened surfaces and then use Section on those Mesh objects. Another possibility is to use the ClippingPlane command which will show the thickness without extracting.
