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Menu Button	TerrainCAD > Solidify Terrain
Command	TCSolidifyTerrain

This command is used to create a solid from a terrain mesh by giving it thickness.

The terrain is an open mesh, which means that it bounded by boundary edges. In order to build a model of the terrain by rapid prototyping or similar processes, it becomes necessary to give the mesh surface a volume.


To solidify a Terrain

1. Carry out steps 1 to 6 in Tutorial 1.

2. Select Solidify Terrain from the "TerrainCAD" submenu or type TCSolidifyTerrain at the Rhino command prompt and press Enter.

3. At the Rhino command prompt Select terrain meshes to solidify, select all the meshes and press Enter.

4. At the "TerrainCAD" option command prompt set the option as required and press Enter.

The mesh is solidified by a specified depth. The bottom of the solidified mesh can be flat or exactly the same as the top surface. When a flat bottom is chosen the depth is measured from the lowest vertex of the original terrain. When a flat bottom is not chosen, the bottom surface is same as the top surface and below it at the distance specified by the depth.

The figure below shows a terrain.

Fig. 1

 

The figure below shows the above terrain solidified to a depth of 70 with a flat bottom.

 

Fig. 2

Note:  Solidification is usually the last command while editing a terrain. Most of the other commands will not work properly once the terrain is solidified. This is because almost all commands assume that the terrain is an open mesh.

 

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