As shown in the figure, I have a design with rings of a parabolic reflector, each segment with a different thickness. To do this, I created a parabola in one work plane, a circle (guide curve) in a second work plane (perpendicular to the first one) and then used the loft operation (periodic loft). After this, I used the thicken operation on the built parabola. But I faced issues in meshing, and on closer inspection, I saw that the thickening is not uniform as seen in the image. This caused gaps in the model, leading to errors.
It seems that each parabola is composed of four sections, and there are four areas of higher thickness instead of the desired uniformly thick reflector.
Could someone guide me to remove this error or suggest an alternative to bypass this issue?
The thickness variation must be radial. Find the law of variation of the thickness on the radius as for a propeller. Then impose the law of variation of the thickness on each circle.
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