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How do you give lofted polygonal planes thickness?
I've lofted some curves together, with the loft tool set to triangular polygons. Now I'm trying to give those planes thickness. I assume that it would involve some kind of extrude command, but I can't figure it out for the life of me. The only info I could find was for extruding individual faces, and since the geometry i fairly complex, that would be annoying. It's also problematic since I plan on building this thing on an RP machine and I need nice smooth planes, no weird gaps between extruded faces.
I will be very, very grateful to whoever solves the plane thickening mystery, it's driving me crazy!
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You don't have to do it individually... you can select all planes and make sure that the extrusion options say to "keep faces together", "extrude", and things should work for you pretty nicely!Originally posted by evelyne
And a wireframe view of why I don't really want to extrude every face individually unless I really, really have to...
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