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Old 3rd December 2013, 09:55 PM   #7
jentron
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Default Re: Request: Extrude in parallel

Geoffm,

Thanks for pointing the Extrude tool out. It does exactly what I was thinking about implementing, which is duplicating each face, swapping its normal, and moving the vertexes $(width) along the line which bisects all the surface normals.

I see now the problem Mossie was talking about earlier. The new plane only ends up parallel to the original plane if all the surrounding faces are the same angle, further $(width) is not the distance between the two faces unless the whole region is flat.

This will require further contemplation to come up with an algorithm...

Ron
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