raidfibre Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 I am trying to draw a solid that will be the model for a thermo-formed plastic part. I have created a solid 3d shape by extruding a 3d poly to the required depth. I then created two simple 3d polygons which I extruded and subtracted from the main solid. I then try to shell the solid and it fails with the frustratingly ambiguous error message "shell solid failed" How should I create a shell if VW won't do it, and won't tell me what's wrong? I have no idea why it failed. Quote Link to comment
Gytis Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 I didn't know one could extrude 3D polys--you sure that's what you are doing? Quote Link to comment
raidfibre Posted October 22, 2007 Author Share Posted October 22, 2007 Yes, it's a closed "3d polygon" drawn on the working plane and then extruded. I make a workaround that hopefully will be ok. I think the problem is when you have too many planes intersecting at one point (I had 4). The algorithm just can't figure out what to do. I changed my geometry a bit and it worked. Quote Link to comment
Rick Francken Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 raidfibre, If you used 2D polygons instead of 3D polygons, does it make any difference? I've done a lot of thermoforming mold design, and have mostly used 2D polygons or rectangles for the extruded profiles. Quote Link to comment
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