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betti cad thickness

The wall thickness of a STEP, IGES, JT or Parasolid part on its exact surfaces: the thinnest walls, along the inward normal, and the thickest sections, by the largest ball inside.

cad module Granted on request: see access and licensing.

Usage

Shell

betti cad thickness [flags] in.step

In a script this is cad.thickness(…), its flags as keywords; for coding agents, the tool cad_thickness.

Examples

Shell

betti cad thickness part.step
betti cad thickness -min 1.5 -max 4 part.step
betti cad thickness -spacing 0.5 -map thickness.vtu part.step
betti cad thickness -json part.step > thickness.json

Flags

Flag	Takes	Default	Meaning
`-map`	text	none	write the part tessellated, each triangle with the least ray and the greatest ball measured on it, to this file (.vtu, .msh and .ply keep them)
`-max`	number	none	the thickest section allowed, in mm: report the area and faces thicker, by the ball
`-min`	number	none	the thinnest wall allowed, in mm: report the area and faces thinner, by the ray
`-spacing`	length or number	`1% of the part's size`	about how far apart the points measured lie, such as 0.5 or 1%

Output flags

Flag	Takes	Default	Meaning
`-json`	switch	off	print the result as JSON
`-q`	switch	off	print nothing but errors
`-skip`	names	none	switch off steps of the work by their names, separated by commas, as the built-in help lists them
`-v`	switch	off	also show the stages of each step, and their times

This page is generated from betti help cad thickness. Lengths are absolute, or a percentage of the part's bounding-box diagonal, as in -size 1%.