CAD Body to Solid

Turns one body of an imported CAD part into a Solid, so it combines with every other Solid operation. The field is the distance to the body's tessellated surface: a closed body is a solid, negative inside. A surface saved as STEP is no body but a CAD Face, which counts as the half-space on the side opposite its normals wherever a Solid is taken — by itself, or through this block: the same open sheet, which Cut or Intersect takes a side of and Thicken Surface gives a thickness.

Inputs

Cad body CAD Body or CAD Face

The CAD Body to convert, or one CAD Face for a thin sheet you can thicken.

Takes: Quad Mesh to CAD Body, CAD Bodies of Part, CAD Body, CAD Face, CAD Faces of Body
Tolerance Number

How closely the Solid follows the CAD surface, in mm. This value sets the tessellation: asking for finer than the import produced re-tessellates the part at this accuracy.

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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