Skin modifier (missing?)

I’m trying to learn a way to easily turn edges into solids. Supposedly Skin Modifier is supposed to do something like what I want, but it is not listed in the modifiers. Why?


Supposedly Skin Modifier is supposed to do something like what I want, but it is not listed in the modifiers. Why?

The skin modifier was added in the blender 2.64 release, you are using blender 2.63

Alternatively you could use the wireframe modifier released in blender 2.70 http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Modifiers/Generate/Wireframe