Specify Base Surfaces
Use the Midsurfaces: Base Surfaces tool to specify a distance from the base surfaces of multiple solids that you wish to treat as if they were continuous. This will help generate separate-but-aligned midsurfaces during extraction.
In certain situations, you may need to extract a midsurface from multiple solids as if they were a single solid.
Normally, this would result in multiple midsurfaces, each one at the middle of the solid it was extracted from (and therefore not aligned with each other).
You can create aligned midsurfaces for non-aligned solids by selecting each solid and specifying its offset separately, using a different offset for each (you must know the exact dimensions of each solid to do this accurately).
Midsurfaces: Base Surfaces Tool
An overview of the Midsurfaces: Base Surfaces tool.
Use the Midsurfaces: Automatic tool to extract the midsurface of sheet metal stampings, molded plastic parts with ribs, and other parts that have thickness clearly smaller than width and length.
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