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91 <h1><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font size=3 style="font-size:12pt;"><img src="image37.gif" width="24px" height="22px" border="0" class="img_whs1"></font></span>Offset Surface</h1>
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93 <p class="whs2"><b style="font-weight: normal;">T</b>o produce
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94 an <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Offset Surface</B></span> in the Main
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95 Menu select <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Operations - > Transformation
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96 - ></B></span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Offset Surface</B></span></p>
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100 <p class="whs2">This operation<span style="font-weight: bold;">
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101 <B></B></span>translates each point of an<span style="font-weight: bold;"><B> Object</B></span>
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102 (a set of Objects) along a local normal by a given <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Offset</B></span>
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103 distance (signed number, negative value meaning inner offset). <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Offset</B></span>
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104 operation is applicable to faces, shells and solids.</p>
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106 <p class="whs2"><b style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The</span>
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107 Result <span style="font-weight: normal;">will be a</span></b> GEOM_Object
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110 <p class="whs2"><b style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>T</B></span>UI
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111 Command: </b><span style="font-style: italic;"><I>geompy.MakeOffset(Shape,
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112 Offset)</I></span>, where Shape is a shape which has to be an offset, Offset
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113 is a value of the offset.</p>
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115 <p class="whs2"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Arguments: </b><span
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116 style="font-size: 12pt;"><font size=3 style="font-size:12pt;">Name + Object (face, shell, solid, compound)
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117 + Offset value </font></span></p>
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119 <p class="whs2"> </p>
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123 <p class="whs2"> </p>
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125 <p class="whs5">Example:</p>
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127 <p class="whs6"><img src="pics/offsetsn.png" x-maintain-ratio="TRUE" width="235px" height="236px" border="0" class="img_whs7"></p>
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129 <p class="whs6"> </p>
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131 <p class="whs8"> <span
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132 style="font-size: 12pt;"><font size=3 style="font-size:12pt;">Our </font></span><span
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133 style="font-weight: bold;"><B>TUI Scripts</B></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font size=3 style="font-size:12pt;">
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134 provide you with useful examples of the use of <a href="transformation_operations.htm#bookmark7">Transformation
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135 Operations</a>. </font></span></p>
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