Craig D.S. Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Greetings again I have a network of closed 3dpolys that they themselves enclose a space much like a faceted sphere or polyhedron. What would be the best way to convert them into a solid I could convert them all to a Mesh at once, but not a solid from the mesh... I converted them all to nurbs then ungrouped them and re selected them all and could not create a surface from all of them. I was able to individually convert each Nurbs Curve to a surface...and from there stitch and trim Surface to get a Solid after Undolng, I was also able to Ddd Solids to get a Solids Addition So I was able to convert all 3d Polys to Nurbs at once, all to a Mesh at once, and all surfaces to a solid at once, but not all Nurbs to either one surface or one solid at once... Is this just me, or is this normal operations? Is there a better way? Thanks Quote Link to comment
Craig D.S. Posted March 10, 2013 Author Share Posted March 10, 2013 There should be a better way tho....LOL, you havent tried editing that solid, have you? Time to create (NNA) a unified script that deals with all possibilities. Ironically, at the heart of this program is parasolid its time for a paramedic Scripting may be a possibility, though i have only tried object creation scripts, but it couldn't be too hard to figure out; along the lines of: for each member of selection do ConvertToNURBS CreateSurfacefromCurvesNetwork end SelectAll TrimNurbsSurface of course all in the proper VS/Pascal syntax... Quote Link to comment
Benson Shaw Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 (edited) I thought I posted this earlier, but it's gone: If the 3d poly facets actually enclose a volume, the Model>Add Solids should work. If it doesn't, then either too many facets, or the edges/vertices are not coincident. Try adding a few at a time. Then add the bunches. When you get them all, Convert to Mesh. Just a reminder - If working a LONG Way from drawing Origin (say 100s or 1000s of miles), the 3d tools have problems. Move the whole thing to origin and try again. -B Edited March 10, 2013 by Benson Shaw Quote Link to comment
Craig D.S. Posted March 10, 2013 Author Share Posted March 10, 2013 I thought I posted this earlier, but it's gone: If the 3d poly facets actually enclose a volume, the Model>Add Solids should work. If it doesn't, then either too many facets, or the edges/vertices are not coincident. Try adding a few at a time. Then add the bunches. When you get them all, Convert to Mesh. Just a reminder - If working a LONG Way from drawing Origin (say 100s or 1000s of miles), the 3d tools have problems. Move the whole thing to origin and try again. -B That works...especially after closing one of the PLines that was causing the error Ctrl +A Ctrl + Alt + A Problem Solved Thanks a whole heap Benson Quote Link to comment
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