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rng1-Visitor
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December 28, 2015
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Quilts and Solidifying

  • December 28, 2015
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Hi All,

Hope you are all enjoying your holidays.

I currently have a quilt that wont solidify properly. I have built a skeleton model of a mouse and because of the tight curvature it will not thicken properly...which is fine... i knew that was going to happen.

So in one instance, I've thickened with special handling conditions, and the surfaces that haven't thickened, i've 'patched' over using the 'style tool' and created what i know to be a watertight quilt. All the quilts merge correctly too. However, when it comes to solidifying the warning 'one-sided edge found in solidify' shows up. When examining the failed feature there are small crosshairs on what i assume to be open quilts... although some are on the original skeleton model surface which should not be possible, as i copied the geometry through...?

Instead of thickening upon retrying, i offset the surfaces that would offset and then patched the whole model. Again, it merges together fine but this time it does not give me the option to solidify. Any ideas?

Please have a look at the attached pictures and i'll try and describe as best as i can

Cheers,

Ray


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rubenvillarreal14-Alexandrite
14-Alexandrite
December 28, 2015

Hello,

In order to not change the geometry, I recommend you that change the merge order of the surfaces, sometimes tiny gaps exists between the surfaces (even when they are merged together), so changing the merge order and the merged surfaces (3 instead of 2 for example) SOMETIMES helps.

Also, you can change the accuracy of your model, which probably results in more problems at the moment of merge the surfaces, but once that is solved, it probably solidify the part just like you want.

Patience.

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rng1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
December 28, 2015

Hi Ruben,

I've figured it out now, turns out one of very small surfaces on my skeleton model wasn't 'watertight' even after merging. This was discovered after recommendations to check the model in wire frame mode.

Any reasons as to why the quilts still merge at the first stage even though its not watertight?

Cheers,

Ray

Dale_Rosema
23-Emerald III
Dale_Rosema23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
December 28, 2015

Don't forget to mark your answer as correct.

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Kevin1-Visitor
1-Visitor
December 29, 2015

‌Another way to go about the modeling of something like this is to break the surface geometry into simpler more manageable segments instead of having one single merged surface that contains all the geometry elements of the final geometry. Having simpler surface segments that allow for solidification, patching, and removal of material may remove the problems altogether that one large surface merge may cause.

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