thickness inspection tool

[roambotics_scott]

Designing moldable parts is a bit of an art, but there are a few rules of thumb that can help. One of the big ones is just making things (reasonably) uniform thickness.

It'd be great to have a simple tool to identify excessively thick / thin bits (and better still if it could help fix those) 

[bkgoodman]

Also - when a lot of processes (like 3d printing) - there are all sorts of (minimum) thickness requirements. (Not uniformity like the OP discussed, but minimums).

Right now when I work in F360 - I have to constantly export the design in STL - upload to my manufaturer, and have them do the thickness check - then get errors from them - fix my design and repeat.

I should be able to do this right from within F360 itself - via an "inspection" tool.

[roambotics_scott]

Yeah great point (and minimum and maximum thicknesses also matter for molded parts)

[colin.smith]

Unfortunately this idea did not get the support of the community and as such we will not be pursuing it. Please feel free to rework and resubmit this one down the road. Thanks for taking the time to submit your idea.

[Anonymous]

I realise this idea got 'archived' a month ago, but would really like to resurrect it. Or start it again, or whatever it takes.

As @bkgoodman rightly points out above:

"Right now when I work in F360 - I have to constantly export the design in STL - upload to my manufacturer, and have them do the thickness check - then get errors from them - fix my design and repeat."

Yes, exactly!

Given F360's existing functionality to test your models - and the growing field of 3D printing - this seems like such an obviously valuable addition to the product.

Right now I'm going back-and-forth with the Shapeways website on the following design. Yeah their minimum thickness checker is great (see below), but seriously I'd expect F360 to offer the same functionality 

cc: @roambotics_scott