DmThicken

Creates 3D solids by thickening (i.e. adding thickness to) surfaces, their faces, faces of 3D solids, regions and wire entities.

The following wire entities are accepted: lines, polylines, circles, ellipses, arcs, helices, splines.

Accessing the Command

command bar: dmthicken

menu bar: Model | Direct Modeling | Thicken

toolbar: Direct Modeling | Thicken

ribbon:

• Modeling Workspace
  • Solid | Direct Modeling | Thicken
  • Surface | Direct Modeling | Thicken
• Mechanical Workspace
  • Home | Model | Thicken
  • Solid | Create | Thicken

Quad cursor menu: Model | Thicken

: dmthicken

Prompts you in the command bar:

Select entities/subentities to thicken: (Select a face of a solid, a surface or a wire entity.)

Entities in set: 1

Select entities/subentities to thicken: (Select more solid faces or surfaces or press Enter.)

S pecify thickness value: (Specify a point or type a value.)

The thickening direction is perpendicular at every point to the selected entity or entities. If you thicken a multi-face surface of several adjacent faces of one 3D solid/surface, then the corresponding faces remain adjacent on the opposite side of the new 3D solid(s). This differs the DmThicken command from DmExtrude.

From left to right: extruded faces of a prism - thickened faces of a prism - thickened face of a cylinder - thickened fillets.

When a wire entity is selected, a circle with the radius of the specified thickness value is swept along the wire:

Command Options

No command options.

Related Commands

DmExtrude - creates 3D solids or 3D surfaces by extruding closed 2D entities, faces of 3D solids, regions or closed boundaries. Optionally adds volume to solids or removes volume from solids.
Sweep - creates 3D solids or 3D surfaces by sweeping profiles (open or closed 2D entities or 3D subentities) along an open or closed path.