fill hollow structure

[crchisholm]

I created this part as a cylinder on top of a disk, then cut four slots in the side of the cylinder.  I did not realize that the structure was hollow until I cut the slots.  How do I fill  the structure so that it can be printed as a solid structure.   I am attaching a screen shot of the object.

[crchisholm]

Im sorry... braickup.

Correctrion:  this object above was made by creating a profile and rotating it around the Z axis.  Then I cut the slots.

[davebYYPCU · Accepted solution]

In the Browser and on the model, your bodies are surface bodies, Orange Icons, 

when you made them, you were in the Surface area of the program.

The picture shows you are now in the solid area, blue icons on the toolbar, use the solid tools, and it will be solid, so the bodies will list in the Browser as solid white coloured articles.

Or move the time line back to before the cutting, and in Surface area, use the Modify > Stitch Tool, and the surfaces should preview with green seams, if the geometry is suitable, (manifold) the body will convert to a solid.

Might help...

[crchisholm · Accepted solution]

Thank you. That's what I needed to understand. I had to redo the object,
but now I know how to do it correctly.

[davebYYPCU]

There is no right or wrong, - just tools for the job,

surface bodies are very useful for other work,  like cutters for the Split body tool,  the list goes on. 

[Anonymous]

Sometimes what is obvious is perplexing to a newbie. I couldn't understand why all my extrusions were hollow until I read this. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Don't mean to be snide, so forgive me, but your answer was not very helpful.  In fact, it was condescending.

[TheCADWhisperer]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Don't mean to be snide, so forgive me, but your answer was not very helpful.  In fact, it was condescending.

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What?