Fewest features to create a hexagonal surface
In the context of another problem, I needed to create some flat surfaces that have "complex" perimeters. I'll use a hexagon here but the real surfaces may have more complex perimeters. I tried a few things in this document flat surface | offset surface.
- Extruding a surface sounds enticing but that make surfaces out of the perimeter elements not the enclosed shape. similarly for "thin" extrusions
- Extruding solid and deleted the unneeded faces leaving just the top (or bottom) surface. That works but for complex perimeters, there can be many faces to delete.
- Extruding a solid, then offset the face you want and deleted the extruded part. That's just three features but still seems like (two) more than would/should be required.
Question is, what's the "right" or "simplest" way. I've not done a lot of surface modelling so am surely missing something… Feels like doing a "solid" extrude with a blind depth of 0 would be a (somewhat) intuitive way of thinking about it.
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Offset surface or Fill are probably the best options. If you want to get creative, Loft works too.
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Just use an Offset surface on the region defined by Sketch 1. No need to extrude or delete anything.
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Offset surface or Fill are probably the best options. If you want to get creative, Loft works too.
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Just use an Offset surface on the region defined by Sketch 1. No need to extrude or delete anything.
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Well, that's the best thing. Thanks.
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