Presspull help

[steveli]

I am having trouble to Press pull these objects. I have used Press pull many times in the past but these are troublesome for some reason. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

[pendean]

You file contains a BLOCK, a GROUP and SPLINE: it looks like you already started to do what you want in the GROUP (middle items). Where did you get stuck exactly?

[Kent1Cooper]

You need to do some cleaning up.  For example, in the left one:

the red and green parts are both closed and backtrack across themselves.  The cyan one is not closed, but it does backtrack along itself, turning around and going back at the point where it meets the yellow parts.  The yellow and white cannot join to the others because none of the potential connecting points are open ends that they could join to -- they're all turn-around-and-go-back points in the middle of Splines/Polylines.

My guess is that it doesn't like a "bounded area" with self-overlapping and/or self-intersecting objects.  Some SPLINEDITing, some PEDITing, maybe some EXPLODEing and/or OVERKILL, some reJOINing....

I didn't check the similar conditions on the other shapes, but I suspect the same issue.

[steveli]

Thanks, When I try to Presspull it or even extrude it, it goes in all directions.

[Patchy · Accepted solution]

Use region then use presspull

[steveli · Accepted solution]

Patchy

Thank you. I am new to 3D modeling and printing....self learning here, so I appreciate your help. Question, the REGIONS command helped me to extrude it but am having trouble creating it STLOUT file. The ones you did work fine but I when I do it does not work the same. I have circled the file in question. 

[Patchy · Accepted solution]

What you have is more than one 3dsolids, move one by one away from that group you'll see them.

What you need to do is using 2 of them, use the command SUBTRACT and select the outer one

then the inner one then you'll get the frame in 3d.

[steveli · Accepted solution]

Thank you for your help!

[Patchy · Accepted solution]

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[steveli]

@Patchy  

Reaching out one more time because of a deadline I have to meet. In the drawing, I have circled another that I am having trouble with. I have tried to follow the steps but I still need to continue to practice my skills. Can you take a look and see what I am doing wrong and also fix it as you helped me with the others. I really appreciate your willing to help me out!

[Patchy]

Copy and paste that bad one to a brand new drawing, flatten, then overkill.

Use Region , it should work.

[Kent1Cooper]

Could it have something to do with the multiplicity of overlaid objects?  Try OVERKILL.

And there's a gap at the red circle [at least -- there may be others].

[steveli]

Thank you for your help! Your awesome!