betti shape offset

The surface at a distance outside or inside a solid.

shape module Granted on request: see access and licensing.

Usage

betti shape offset [flags] in out

Examples

betti shape offset -distance 2 part.stl outer.obj
betti shape offset -distance -1% part.stl inner.obj

Flags

FlagTakesDefaultMeaning
-anglenumber7the most, in degrees, a face may turn from the exact offset: smaller follows it more closely
-distancelength or numberrequiredhow far, such as 2 or 1% outward, -2 or -1% inward

Output flags

FlagTakesDefaultMeaning
-jsonswitchoffprint the result as JSON
-qswitchoffprint nothing but errors
-vswitchoffalso show the stages of each step, and their times

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