Hi,
This has been asked a million times and ive been googling but i still cant get my head around the problem or how to fix.
Here is a model of a drill bit holder to 3d print. I cant use solid tools to create the countersunk holes as it says there are surface border errors in solid inspector 2 but i dont understand how to fix this.
Appreciate any help as always.
Thanks
Dan
Drill bit holder.skp (1.1 MB)
So ive fixed the surface borders issue, i realised that for some reason the first row of holes had a continuous surface over them so i redrew all the circles and then i could delete the face of each circle leaving the cylindrical holes as required.
Ive also exploded and made a component so no nested instances and solid inspector says all good but sketchup not showing it as a solid.
Drill bit holder.skp (1.5 MB)
You also have holes in the surface with all of the numbers that have a closed shape. Edit the component, trace edges with the Line tool and make sure they are correctly oriented.
FWIW, the 3D Text components come in as solids. If you made the drill holder as a solid group or component and placed the 3D Text components but didn’t explode them, they’d all be solids and the slicer would treat them as one object. Save you a lot of work and time fixing up bad geometry.
Drill bit holder.skp (488.1 KB)
Oh how did i not see that!
Thank god for undo. So ive gone back to the point where i exploded everything and made one component so now i have the drill bit holder as a component with the text as nested components but its still not showing as a solid and solid inspector shows no errors apart from nested components which isnt an issue for 3d printing as you just told me.
So still cant use solid tools…arrrrgh. So frustrating…bet its something simple.
Drill bit holder.skp (1.3 MB)
You didn’t make the block a component or group. It’s loose geometry cobined with the 3D Text components inside the parent component.
I opened the parent for editing, selected the geometry for the block and made it a component. It shows as solid now.
With all of them selected, 26 solid components. Note the parent component will not show as solid and should not be expected to.
ok so i realise that i cant have the text as nested components within the main drill bit holder component i have to keep them seperate.
You can’t have components and loose geometry combined together into a component and expect it to be a solid. In order for an object to be considered solid it must meet the following requirements. Every edge must be shared by exactly two faces. No more and no fewer. And all faces must be correctly oriented.
Gotcha all making sense now, learning alot in the last couple of weeks just from your help so thanks very much. Appreciated.
