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You can download and install the Mesh Enabler from the Autodesk App Store if you are on subscription. With this install and enabled in the Add-Ins manager, it will convert your imported OBJ file to a solid.
John Hackney, Retired
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The mesh is very irregular and I am not having much luck with it as a solid. I will have to pass on giving you any help in this area.
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Ok, Mesh Enabler does it's job with this rather simple case.
But the general problem is: Even if a mesh can be converted to a solid, it's outer surfaces still consist of thousands of tiny planar faces. Large file size and bad response times come along.
In this case I created a substitute revolved part, after some trials. There's been an intersection in the profile; I only found it after some partly revolutions. In the end I deleted intermediate bodies, but the file size still was big, because of hidden geometry in the file.
A STEPOut-STEPIn brought back acceptable file size.
2019 files attached. Additional clean-up is possible, resulting in less overall faces.
Walter Holzwarth
@JDMather I have attached the files below. You can also see the results of the import as advised above.
I have tried modern and legacy .obj file-type:
Modern obj:
And legacy:
Re-import to Blender displays colors correctly.:
