- The thickened cut tool is very, very similar
to the cut with surface tool, however,
instead of just cutting all of the model away
it only cuts a certain thickness or pathway
of where that surface was.
To use that tool go ahead and click on Thickened Cut
and choose what surface we want to use.
I want to use that one right there.
And then I can choose which direction I want to go in
by either going this way, so let's bring it down, down here.
I can go midplane or back up to the top.
Now I can choose the thickness or the thickness of the cut
and right there then I can click on Ok,
and it's going to ask me do I want to keep
both of these bodies or do I want to select
which body I want to keep?
I can keep one of them, both of them, or none of them.
So go up to solid bodies click on Ok
and you can see I have both bodies now.
If you go under the Solid Bodies folder here
I can see both of them.
I can show and hide them at will,
and again this is a very cool tool
if you want to make some type of a pathway
through a solid model with a surface,
just define the surface, define the offset
and away you go.
That is the thickened cut tool.