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Cannot create solid body even after stitching

josephhhaines — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 22:29:09 GMT

I am trying to create a solid body having sculpted a form and patched all openings. Even after I stitched everything together, I still observe a hollow body in Section Analysis. I have also tried Boundary Fill, but when I go to select Cells, nothing appears. I'm still learning the software, so I would greatly appreciate any tips.

Re: Cannot create solid body even after stitching

jeff_strater — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 00:10:35 GMT

@josephhhaines, it looks like you have some edges that did not stitch. If you start the Stitch command again, you will see some red edges - these show edges that are not stitched, or which are "open" edges (meaning that there is not even a pair edge to stitch with). You'll need to fix those up before either Stitch or Boundary Fill will turn this into a solid.

And, to add a friendly warning: Do not solve this by increasing the stitch tolerance a lot. This approach can sometimes work, but the resulting model is usually problematic. This adds "tolerant edges", which can cause downstream problems. Use this only as a last resort.

Re: Cannot create solid body even after stitching

josephhhaines — Sat, 25 Aug 2018 22:57:48 GMT

Thank you, Jeff. I'll try a few different options that I've currently been brainstorming to reach my objective. I apologize though for the late reply. Work got in the way.