convert solid part to surface body?

adamohern

If I have a solid body and would like to convert it to an empty surface body (i.e. stitched faces), how can I do that? I know I can use delete face to remove one face, thus converting the rest of the body to surfaces, but I want to do it without removing a face.

lougallo

@adamohern Not yet an option.  You can hollow out a body using the shell hollow option but I am guessing you are after just surfaces...  Delete is your best bet now but then you have to loft or do some odd patching.  More surfacing options will be in the future.

otaolafr

lougallo said:

@adamohern Not yet an option.  You can hollow out a body using the shell hollow option but I am guessing you are after just surfaces...  Delete is your best bet now but then you have to loft or do some odd patching.  More surfacing options will be in the future.

hello, is there any option now for this? when i explode a solid in their faces with coping (i am using offset surface with offset=0) and deleting the faces of the model, their connect edges do not share the same points, resulting in a non-watertight model (when combining all the surfaces). is there any way to work around this?
thanks

billy2

If you have a body, offset 0 all faces and then delete the original body. Then you should be able to enclose all of the offset faces back into a solid.

If you can't, the original solid was on the cusp of failure and you're lucky.

If you're using feature script, it should match up with the user interface and enclose. You can always look at the enclose command and see how onshape did it.