Hi Zhuang,
 the most efficient way to do what you need is to first create the thick wall 
and then clip the mesh afterwards.

In order to create the thick wall (I assume you want to go "outwards"), do the 
following:

vmtksurfacenormals -ifile input_surface.vtp --pipe vmtksurfacetomesh --pipe 
vmtkboundarylayer -warpvectorsarray Normals -constantthickness 1 -thickness 2.0 
-ofile thick_walled_model.vtu

Now you can clip the resulting model using Clip in Paraview or using 
vmtkmeshclipper.

Hope this helps.


Luca



On Feb 20, 2012, at 10:16 AM, Lingfeng Zhuang wrote:

> Dear Luca,
> 
> I am using vmtkcenterlinemodeller + vmtkmarchingcubes to produce a 3D airway 
> model.  I am going to print it out using 3D printer. 
> 
> But, the operator told me I need to 
> 1. Open all closest surface on airway end points.
> 2. Set wall thickness to 2mm. Now, wall thickness is zero because wall is 
> composed of one-layer cells.
> 
> Could you tell me how to do that?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Zhuang lingfeng
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