# skin()

The skin handle for the mesh you are working on. It takes no arguments.

It looks at the active slot in Skin Desk. If you run Quick Skin or Pull with no slot selected, that call comes back with `ok=False`.

### Signature
```python
api.skin() -> skin
```

### Example
```python
skin = api.skin()
print(skin.mesh_height_cm())
```

To exchange with a DCC, see [pull](pull.md) and [push](push.md). To build weights, see [quick_skin](quick-skin.md).