GWS Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 I am revisiting an old project and trying to solve an unsolved problem. I have a plug, shown in green, that I am trying to add a solid centre to. I have managed to loft the surfaces from extracted curves and stitch them together but the object that they create make a hollow form, Shown in blue. (I have done a solid subtraction to show this hollowness). What I would like to do is make this a solid as the 3d printer I have used will not recognise the stitched surfaces as a solid. To get round this problem I imported the object into 'AutoCAD Inventor', which seemed to create a solid, and then exported as an STL file. Is there a way to model the blue area in VW that will produce a solid filled object? Quote Link to comment
mmyoung Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 If you Modify > Convert > Convert to Generic Solids, will it work? I Ungrouped your solid subtraction, deleted the cube you used to section it, then selected the blue object and converted it. VW now identifies it as a Generic Solid. Will that fly with your 3D printer? Quote Link to comment
mmyoung Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 I exported a medium res STL of the Generic Solid plug, then downloaded an eval copy of "STL Viewer" and took a look at the STL export plug model. It looks like it's playing nicely. Quote Link to comment
GWS Posted October 9, 2009 Author Share Posted October 9, 2009 That seems to have done the trick. I completely overlooked the convert to Generic solids comand! Many thanks for your help Quote Link to comment
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