Profile Extrusion

Pushes a profile out along a direction to make a solid of the given length. Options taper the walls, center the solid on the profile plane, or make it a thin-walled tube following the profile's outline.

Inputs

Profile Profile

The flat outline to extrude.

Takes: Circle, Curves to Profile, Join Profiles, Points to Polygon, Rectangle, Regular Polygon, Slot, Cross Section
Distance Number

Wired extrusion length; takes precedence over the typed value.

Direction Vector

Wired extrusion direction; takes precedence over the typed value.

Draft angle Number

Wall taper in degrees, from -89 to 89. 0 gives straight walls; positive values lean the walls inward. Distances are approximate at steep angles.

Symmetric Yes/No

When on, the solid reaches half the distance to each side of the profile plane.

Thickness Number

When above 0, only a wall of this thickness in mm along the outline is extruded, leaving it hollow. Wire a field for a varying wall.

Takes: any block that gives Number (102 blocks)
Shell direction Choice

For a hollow extrusion: Inward keeps the outline as the outer face, Outward as the inner face, Center puts half the wall on each side.

Advanced (1)
Trim ends Yes/No

For an open profile, stops the extrusion at the ends of its curves. It has no effect on a closed profile, and the length is set by Distance either way.

Output

Solid

Used by: any block that takes Solid (95 blocks)

Properties

Values the block gives besides its output. The editor lists them under Properties, and an input can read one by reference.

BoundingBox Bounding Box

The axis-aligned extent of the Solid.

ScalarField Number

The Solid's signed distance, as a field.

Inverted Solid

The Solid turned inside out: what was inside is now outside.

In the demos

What implicit modeling is

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