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Identifying Non-Manifold Edges in Composite Objects
charles_fairchild772
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Many of my creations turn into 3D prints. Because of that, I use a lot of composite objects because I need to group things that use similar colors together to export them as one object.
This is all fine, but sometimes I create a few objects, change their colors around, and miss some objects that are touching when I turn them into composite objects. I know I need to union them -> but often I miss this detail when I'm swapping colors around and moving them between composite objects
Is there any way to highlight/detect those in onshape? I can do it in my slicer later but I would personally love to have some way to highlight those in composite objects. I wouldn't want it to reject it in a composite object necessarily... but I would want to know about it. Maybe it should reject it though?
This is all fine, but sometimes I create a few objects, change their colors around, and miss some objects that are touching when I turn them into composite objects. I know I need to union them -> but often I miss this detail when I'm swapping colors around and moving them between composite objects
Is there any way to highlight/detect those in onshape? I can do it in my slicer later but I would personally love to have some way to highlight those in composite objects. I wouldn't want it to reject it in a composite object necessarily... but I would want to know about it. Maybe it should reject it though?
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As far as I know, if you are designing multiple parts inside one part studio, you cannot merge any items that have a non-manifold edge. To avoid one of these edges, you can either assemble the multiple parts together in an assembly using a fastened mate, or you can change the dimensioning of the two faces in the part studio. If you specifically just want to change the appearance/color of them inside of Onshape, you can use the appearance panel to do so.
If you double click inside of the orange box, you can select all of the faces you would like to change the appearance of. This allows you to go back later and change the color for all of the faces selected at once, or to edit the faces selected. I hope this this helps you out a little!
- Ethan