Offset Hole Edges
By creating offsets of hole edges, triangles are inserted at border edges which lie in the same plane as the triangles adjacent to the hole edges. That way, for example, holes can be made smaller without closing them completely. In a small dialog box you can insert the distance from the old border edges to the new ones.
Then, triangles are attached to the edges of the hole. For each border edge and each corner point of the hole, another edge and corner are inserted at the distance you defined in the dialog. New triangles are placed, enlarging the existing plane of the neighboring triangle. New corner points are placed along the cutting line of the two new triangles.
 An offset with 1mm distance has been created. |
 After that, another offset is created, this time with 4mm distance. |
If one or more triangles on the part are selected, netfabb creates only offsets along the edges belonging to these selected triangles.
 Here, two triangles are selected before creating the offset |
 The resulting offset. |
