I need advice/help on the part shown above. I’m attempting to model & print a trim panel for a 2023 Silverado Work Truck which will allow me to install additional USB-A outlets in my dash. All is well with this solid EXCEPT for one edge border artifact that I can’t delete without loosing the entire critical surface on my part.
In the picture above, I’ve selected the surface in question. There is a thin triangular “shard” of surface which behaves as a contiguous surface (shares the edge border) with the larger, needed geometry of the part even though it appears to have only point contact with the border edge at each end of the “shard”. Simply stated, I need to eliminate this surface “shard” while retaining the planer part geometry which it seems bound to.
I’m open to any and all suggestions for achieving this goal in Sketchup.
I’m running Sketchup 26.2.243 on a Windows 11 Desktop (Intel(R) Core™ i5-9400F CPU @ 2.90GHz 2.90 GHz 32GBRam) with an NVidea Geforce GTX 1600 graphics card.
I edited an existing solid model to thicken the bases of the two individual retaining features on one side of the model. This resulted in the closing the large interior hole with a surface. I subdivided this surface until I was left with the shard shown.
There’s more problems with it than just that shard. I’ve been working on trying to resolve them but it’s beginning to look like starting over clean makes the most sense.
If you did start with some file you downloaded, can you share that?
Your original is clearly converted to .skp from some other file type. It comes with a fair amount of excess geometry and small triangulation. For something like this I would suggest using the thing from Thingiverse as a reference and then model new and clean.
I need to scale this model down till the short side of the opening is 1.125". I’m having a little difficulty when I do that. I’m using the tape measurer and giving it a new dimension. It seems when I do this the geometry gets distorted.
Does your slicer allow importing .stl file using inches? Or millimeters?
Due to the tiny faces issue, when I model for 3D printing I model as if millimeters are meters (Units set to Meters in Model Info). I export the .stl with units set to meters and import into the slicer as millimeters.
I have scaled my version of the plate using the Tape Measure tool. Instead of scaling down to inches I scaled so that the opening is 28.5750m wide. That’ll translate to 28.5750 mm or 1.125 in. wide.
The component definition is the information about the component which includes its dimensions. If you open a component for editing and scale the geometry within, the definition automatically gets updated when you exit the edit mode. If you scale the component instead the definition needs to be updated manually. That’s done by right clicking on the component and then selecting Scale Definition.
OK. If you export the .stl from the file I shared import it into Prusa with millimeters as the units.
