To Create a Scaled Thicken Feature
Scaling a thicken feature gives you more control over the direction and behavior of the resulting geometry. You can scale the geometry in relation to coordinate systems, axes, and surfaces.
1. Select the quilt or surface geometry to thicken.
2. Click > 
Thicken. The Thicken tab opens, and default preview geometry appears in the graphics window.
Thicken. The Thicken tab opens, and default preview geometry appears in the graphics window.3. To define the type of geometry to create, click one of the following commands:
◦ 
Fill with solid material—Add a thin section of solid material.
Fill with solid material—Add a thin section of solid material.◦ 
Remove material—Remove a thin section of material.
Remove material—Remove a thin section of material.4. To define the feature thickness, perform one of the following actions:
◦ Type a value for 
Offset value.
Offset value.◦ Drag the thickness handle in the graphics window.
5. To define which side of the quilt or surface geometry to thicken, click 
to switch between one side, symmetric about both sides, or the other side.
to switch between one side, symmetric about both sides, or the other side.6. To scale the direction of the thicken feature, click the Options tab, and select an option:
◦ Normal to surface—Offsets the thickened surface normal to the original surface. To select individual or multiple surfaces to exclude from the thicken operation, click the Exclude Surfaces collector, and select surfaces to exclude.
 | The Exclude Surfaces list is not available for design situations involving quilts made of unique surfaces and quilts where all but one of the quilt surfaces have been excluded. You cannot exclude the last remaining quilt surface. |
◦ Automatic fit—Scales and translates the thickened surface in relation to an automatically determined coordinate system.
◦ Controlled fit—Scales the original surface about a selected coordinate system, and then translates it along a specified axis. Then you can perform any of these actions:
▪ To select a different coordinate system reference for the thicken feature, click the Coordinate system collector, and select a coordinate system.
▪ To select the axes to use to control the scaling and behavior of material for the thicken feature, under Allow translation, select any of the X, Y, and Z check boxes. By default the x-, y-, and z-axes are selected as the translation axes. If you do not want to allow translation along a certain axis clear the appropriate check box.
7. Click the Body Options tab, and then select the body to which to add geometry, or from which to remove geometry:
◦ When Fill with solid material is selected, under Add geometry to body, perform one of these actions:
Fill with solid material is selected, under Add geometry to body, perform one of these actions:▪ To add geometry to an existing body, click the body collector, and then select the body to which geometry is added.
▪ To create the feature in a new body, select the Create new body check box. The name of the new body appears in the body collector.
◦ When Remove material is selected, under Cut geometry from body, perform one of these actions:
Remove material is selected, under Cut geometry from body, perform one of these actions:▪ To cut geometry from all the bodies that the feature passes through, select All.
▪ To cut geometry from selected bodies:
1. Select Selected.
2. Click the body collector, and then select bodies from which to cut geometry.
8. Click 
OK.
OK.