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Help with making a form in to a body

Anonymous — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 15:24:11 GMT

Hello I want to make this form to a body so i can 3d print it. I have tried to use thicken but it doesn't work. Am i forced to remake the body ore can i do something else?

Here is a public link: https://a360.co/2OZ2fV1

Re: Help with making a form in to a body

davebYYPCU — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 22:13:30 GMT

Have you patched the bottom face of the surface body?

Patch and then stitch, should give a fully solid model.

If Thicken doesn’t work then Shell may not work either, and that would come down to Geometry of the body.

Long shot: Print the solid with perimeters only.

Might help.....

Re: Help with making a form in to a body

TrippyLighting — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 04:32:27 GMT

I'd watch this little series of YouTube tutorials from Gichi Endo on how to model cars with T-Splines. He's an experienced vehicle designer. While real vehicles are not designed using T-Splines, they make a fabulous tool for Concept design.

Maybe you can take a thing or two away from these tutorials.

Here is one of my tips:

If you watch a YouTube video on T-Spline modeling and the author models 90% or more in smooth mode, forget the tutorial. You might notice that Gichi models almost exclusively with quad polygons and almost exclusively in box view mode.

Here is one of your models in Box View mode:

Too many N-gons.

Triangles should NEVER be used in any T-Spline model.

Self intersections.

Etc.

Start from scratch after watching Gichi's vids!