Philippe_Gibone wrote:

> What happens if you make an intersection of the Dome with another object ?
I am not sure what you mean.
The result should be a normal, standard mesh.
But perhaps I am missing something.
If you have a small example I might give it a go
somewhere over the weekend.
(you can mail it to the hotmail address).

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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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