What happens if you make an intersection of the Dome with another object ?


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> Philippe_Gibone wrote:
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> >>As a postprocessing step after generating the mesh:
> >>Copy the mesh and offset all the points in the direction of the
> >>normal. connect all the points at the egdes of the two meshes.
> >>Will not work properly if the offset results in mesh intersections.
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> > This will not work, because the panes will not be thick, but only,
> > apparently thick. If you difference the dome with something else you'll
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> > the two meshes with vacuum in-between, but not a cut thick dome ;-(((
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> If you connect the two meshes together at the edges it is just one mesh,
> so that will work. NB don't forget to flip all the triangles
> in one of the two, otherwise to normal (and thus the inside and outside)
> is not defined consistently.
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