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How should I turn surfaces to solids?
vincent_piechocki
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I recently learned that I could fabricate car body panels out of 3d printed molds, and I really wanted to try it since the school I go to has many 3d printers, I figured by the time I graduate I could have One of my dream cars. So I got to work trying to find Cad models of a c2 Corvette, I found one and started gutting parts and trying to make it so that 3d printers could slowly work on it. So, originally I wanted to make a grid and make drawings for each side within the grid and make a kind of topological grid that I could turn to a solid then export and print, I then found out that I could project, or it wouldn't work properly at least, so then I figured. hey at least I can thicken the body and work from there, but I also had problems (the tool wouldn't allow me to click on the surface), I also tried enclose and I read other forums and couldn't find anything that could work within this case, any help or advice would be appreciated.
I linked the file so you guys could help, I tried enclose and boolean on the "headlights", and tried thicken on the "doors" and the "full body," and the original file is an obj
Also I'm working on Windows 11, and on a Dell with 16GB of RAM, if it matters.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/f4a92e046d27eb7b5dd3a09c/w/e804f41a96383df56def6b2e/e/983bc8861c06a56637a0ece5?renderMode=0&uiState=66d52fbb3ad39a0f302d8311
Answers
You have to covert those mesh objects to surfaces (basically trace over them with onshape objects like solids and surfaces) before you can use any tools like thicken.
unfortunately Onshape can't interact with mesh objects like that. if you can get it into another program and cut sections (every 50 or 100mm) and trace the important edges, you can bring those curves back into Onshape and use them to make new, clean curves, and then make nice clean surfaces out of those curves.