I have 2 groups brewing vessel with elliptical dome. Solid inspector2 OK tube Solid inspector 2 OK I move the tube and connect it to the elliptical vessel Solid inspector2 on both connected groups OK I run the Outer Shell tool and the result produces a hole in the top part of the dome Of cou…

[image] jacques_bourdouxhe: Box: The brewing vessel is for a 1/120 scale model railroad layout so It is already scaled up by a factor of 1000. so should I scale it by a factor of 100 before using the outer shell tool or should I restart everything from zero and recreate the 2 objects with a s…

If you upload the model we’ll have a better chance of determining the problem and its solution. You may omit some necessary detail from your description simply because you didn’t know it was relevant. -Gully

Scale it up by 10 or 100 and try again. Looks like a tiny faces issue.

first , thank you Gully and Box for taking some of your valuable time trying to help . Box: The brewing vessel is for a 1/120 scale model railroad layout so It is already scaled up by a factor of 1000. so should I scale it by a factor of 100 before using the outer shell tool or should I restart e…

[image] Why are some boxed in areas blue some are not? SketchUp You’ll find the Upload button in the toolbar at the top of the Reply box. Like so… [image] -Gully

Most likely the same button you used to add the image. You can also just drag and drop files into the message box and they will upload.

Gully and Box, thank you for the info about uploading files. Anssi, I designed the vessel with 256 sides for the circles , being a newbie I"m overcautious :smile: Right now I’m starting allover again with 32 sides for the circles.I"ll let you know about the result. Regards Jacques

All right, I redesigned the brewing vessel with 32 sides for the circles. No Errors Everything is Shiny ** :smile: ** My brewing vessel is now manifold and " beertight " . Thank’s again for helping

Error with elliptical dome after Outer Shell

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Gully_Foyle August 12, 2015, 10:25pm 5

-Gully

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Error with elliptical dome after Outer Shell

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