I have been awake for fifty hours now trying to fix new holes that keep forming in my Sketchup images. I can’t print them and Solid Inspector keeps finding new problems. Can someone please help?
wrist.skp (209.9 KB)
I have been awake for fifty hours now trying to fix new holes that keep forming in my Sketchup images. I can’t print them and Solid Inspector keeps finding new problems. Can someone please help?
wrist.skp (209.9 KB)
I’ve recreated that part because it was faster than the repairing of the oiginal…
wrist_cotty.skp (732.3 KB)
(Edit: You should change the title of this topic because it’s not a problem of solid inspector.)
Thanks so much, Cotty!
I have remade this multiple times but with each tweak, things get gaps in them. Is there an easy way to fill gaps in Sketchup? Thanks for showing the steps involved too.
It depends on the hole… it is possible with: the line tool, Curviloft, ExtrudeTools, Sandbox tools, …
Of course, the best answer is to avoid creating gaps in the first place ! In your model, there were numerous edges inside the final shape that suggest you had small misalignments while placing and intersecting the two segments. Study the process Cotty showed, try it yourself, and if some aspect still causes problems for you, come back with more questions.
Thank you. I have been having serious issues trying to cut this shape in half - it is housing for a servo motor so the shape needs to click around the motor in 2 pieces.
I made a rectangle, then placed it in the centre of the shape, then highlighted everything, then intersected the faces, then grouped the top half, then moved it so it was by itself, but the rectangle did not fill the gaps in the middle - it was hollow.
I was having more solid inspector issues. Even with Cotty’s image, solid inspector reports no issues while the image is grouped, but if I explode Cotty’s image, solid inspector reports hundreds of issues.
I just want to slice the model into 2 pieces. Can someone please tell me why I’m having problems with this method?
I had no issues cutting it in half, so you must be doing something wrong.
I tried to upload the result, but for some reason that isn’t working for me just now…
I used basically the same approach as Cotty outlined above. When I split it in half, I got one half that was identified as a solid and the other half not. However, when I exported them as an STL file, they loaded into MakerBot just fine:
I think the area circled in red (below) may be causing SketchUp not to recognize it as a solid. This is where two boundaries cross and several surfaces meet at that point:
I also switched the model units to mm and turned off the snap-to option which may explain @slbaumgartner’s observation:
Not knowing for sure the target height, I arbitrarily made the overall dimension 25mm by scaling the model down.
wrist_jh.skp (98.0 KB)
Thanks. The rectangle never cut out anywhere until I intersected faces with context.
Thanks so much for your in-depth observations. Very generous people here. And thanks for remaking the model. So much effort
Here’s a way with s4u-slice ($) and my uploaded model. Both parts are recognized as solids afterwards…
Thanks so much Cotty. I’ll print this and probably download and pay for that plugin