Help - Capping off a mesh

[thomas-buchan]

Good morning 

I have a Mesh with an open round top to it, i'd like to cap off the top so it can be 3D printed (Cura is not liking the open top) but i am having trouble with the sketch picking up on the points on the rim? 

Would you have any advice? (file attached)

Kind regards

Tom 

[thomas-buchan]

Just to add, the mesh was converted to T-splines fine. 

[jeff_strater · Accepted solution]

The model you shared here does not have a TSplines body in it, so I'm not quite sure about it having been converted to TSplines.  But, if all you want to do is to cap off the open top, see the screencast below.

But, what are you trying to do with this model?  I don't think Cura can deal with a surface model, it needs solids.  Also, as you can see in the video, the patch and stitch take a long time.  That is because this approach of converting a mesh into a surface body, creating one face per mesh facet, is very inefficient.  I would be tempted to approach this differently, and use TSplines, and Pull or Object Snap to create a TSplines version of this model.  That will be much more efficient to get to what I think is your final result.

[thomas-buchan]

Hi Jeff 

Thank you for taking the time to record that, i capped it off, put it in Cura and it printed fine. Result. 

Kind regards, 

Tom