concrete footing.skp (113.9 KB) I seem to recall there is a simple way to find the volume of an object. I thought it was to select the object and look under Entity Info, but that doesn’t seem to work in this case. Am I mis-remembering? I’m attaching a file of this object–a precast concrete footing…

concrete footing revised.skp (22.5 KB) OK, I removed the internal faces and edges (had no idea there was so much junk in there!) and made the object a group. File attached. Selected it, but Entity Info still states no volume. Is “Entity Inspector” something other than Entity Info? Thanks Annssi

There is still an internal face between the footing and the pillar. [image] Anssi

Anssi, you’re good! I had deleted that face, not realizing when I replaced the face I’d deleted in order to see inside, I inadvertently recreated that internal face. Now Entity Info says: 5.1605 cu. ft. Awesome! Thanks!

The reason you don’t see the volume measurement in the Entity window is because the “Entity” isn’t a volume, yet. You have to examine and fix it. When it shows a measurement, it’s also saying, “Congratulations, you’ve drawn a perfect shape”. When drawing something like a hula hoop using the “Foll…

[image] jimshipsky: the face I’d deleted in order to see inside, the ‘section cut tool’ is great for looking inside things… delete it when your done fixing the geometry… john

Thanks John–that’s a much better method…

Hi folks. You can also hide a face or faces. Then, once the clean-up is done, Unhide them. Another possibility (longer procedure) is to delete a face, do the the cleaning and then recreate the face by tracing a new edge. The trick is to avoid tracing an edge that may recreate an internal face. In …

Thanks Jean. I like your hide-face option. Something I like about this Forum and the Digest is the amount of my inadvertent learning. For example, I watched the video about downloading from 3D Warehouse a model of the US Capitol building, then prepping it for 3D printing. I don’t actually foresee…

Hi All - I have a similar issue - I am working on a landscape which currently falls away in one corner. We would like to build the site up to be level. Therefore I have created a landscape which reflects the existing and proposed levels and laid one on top of the other. I was hoping this would gene…

Hi Pen, I’m guessing you don’t want to destroy the existing terrain geometry. Is that right?

How to find the volume of an object

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Anssi May 15, 2016, 5:44pm 2

Remove the internal faces and edges and group the object. Then the Entity Inspector will show it as a “solid group” and display the volume.

Anssi

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How to find the volume of an object

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