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About the Thicken Feature User Interface
The Thicken tab consists of commands, tabs, and shortcut menus. Select a quilt or surface geometry to thicken, and then click Model > Thicken to open the Thicken tab.
Commands
—Creates solid volume using the selected surface or quilt
—Removes material using the selected surface or quilt
box—Sets the material thickness of the thickness feature.
—Switches the material direction of the thicken feature. Each click cycles the material side from one side, to the other side, and then both sides.
Tabs
References
Quilt collector—Displays the surface or quilt to thicken. 
Options
Normal to surface—Offsets the thickened surface normal to the original surface.
Exclude Surfaces collector—Displays surfaces to exclude from the thicken operation.
 
* The Exclude Surfaces collector 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 with respect to an automatically determined coordinate system.
Controlled fit—Creates a "best fit" scenario by scaling the original surface about a selected coordinate system and then translating it along a specified axis.
Coordinate system collector—Displays the coordinate system used to scale and fit the offset.
Allow translationX, Y, and Z check boxes—Translates and scales along the selected axes. 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.
Properties
Name box—Sets a name for a feature.
—Displays detailed component information in a browser.
Shortcut Menus
Right-click the graphics window to access shortcut menu commands.
Thicken Quilt—Activates the Quilt collector.
Coordinate System—Activates the Coordinate system collector.
Exclude Surfaces—Activates the Exclude Surfaces collector.
Flip Direction—Changes the material direction of the Thicken feature.
Remove Material—Removes material using the surface or quilt geometry as the boundary.
Add Material—Adds material using the surface or quilt geometry as the boundary.
Right-click the direction arrow to access shortcut menu commands.
Flip—Flips the material direction of the thicken feature. Each click cycles the material side from one side to the other sides.
Both Sides—Creates the Thicken feature symmetrically on both sides of the quilt reference.