Fusion
I think you should go back and ask the manufacturer for a neutral "solid" model such as STEP or SAT.
John Hackney, Retired
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This model was deliberately created in this scrambled state by the manufacturer to make reverse engineering difficult.
Simple thickening, as you have discovered, will not work. Re-creating all the missing surfaces is going to be very difficult and time intensive, provided it can even be done.
I think the best workaround is to create solid geometry that approximates the geometry.
to add to what @TrippyLighting says, please do NOT try to stitch with a 5mm tolerance. Even if stitching with such a large tolerance is ultimately successful, that will only get you one step farther on, you will very likely run into much worse problems with any subsequent modeling or even sketch operations which reference this geometry. Tolerant geometry should be used only as a last resort, and only when you really don't plan to do do anything further with the model.
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
