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\page create_thickness_page Thickness Construction
To add a \b Thickness to a shape in the <b>Main Menu</b> select <b>New Entity - > Generation - > Thickness</b>
\n
It is possible to create a Solid from a Face or a Shell by applying a
\b Thickness. To do it you should define an \b Object that is a Face or a
Shell, \b Thickness and to define the thickness direction by means of
<b>Thicken towards the inside</b> check box.
\image html thickness.png
<b>Example:</b>
\image html thickness_result.png "Thickness of Shell"
It is possible to apply \b Thickness to a Solid. The result of this operation
is the hollowed Solid. To do it you should define an \b Object that is a Solid,
\b Faces to be removed from result, \b Thickness and the thickness direction by
means of <b>Thicken towards the inside</b> check box.
\image html thicksolid.png
<b>Example:</b>
\image html thicksolid_result.png "Thickness of Solid"
\n <b>TUI Commands:</b>
\n
<em>geompy.MakeThickSolid(theShape, theThickness, theFacesIDs=[])</em> -
Makes a thick solid from a shape;
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<em>geompy.Thicken(theShape, theThickness, theFacesIDs=[])</em> -
Modifies a shape to make it a thick solid.
<b>Arguments:</b> Name + 1 shape (face, shell or solid) + thickness +
the list of face IDs.
\n If the shape is face or shell the list of face IDs is not used.
The thickness can be positive or negative for thicken towards the inside.
\n\n <b>Advanced options</b> \ref preview_anchor "Preview"
Our <b>TUI Scripts</b> provide you with useful examples of creation of
\ref tui_creation_thickness "Complex Geometric Objects".
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