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Cant thicken an extruded solid. - Hmmm
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boydage  
#1 Posted : Monday, August 8, 2016 4:50:53 PM(UTC)
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I have followed the tutorial of creating a snowboard to the letter. I have managed (finally lol) to come up with a surface that is kind of what I need and only now need to make a few adjustments.

When I go to thicken solid, I always get an error "Unable to thicken solid"

I have recreated the line that I am extruding many times just to make sure everything is joined etc, it extrudes, I remove the other solid just like the tutorial but then get the error.

I have attached a screenshot - can someone see what I am doing wrong?


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Boyd

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Tim Olson  
#2 Posted : Tuesday, August 9, 2016 12:57:20 AM(UTC)
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Hi Boyd

The most frequent error for thickening occurs when there is an area of local curvature that is greater then the offset amount. This means a valid offset is impossible because it would self intersect. Are you able to thicken at a very small amount? Or how about a negative thickness value? (will offset the opposite side)

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