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Cant Print Bowl without infilling full bowl area
Pug_Wizard
Member Posts: 4 ✭
so I am trying to make a cat bowl for my automatic cat feeder and im and getting more and more enraged. I have made a closed composite part out of 2 parts and two lofted surfaces because I could not find a way to make a bowl the shape I needed without using loft and there was no way to loft the two parts together other then surface loft. but whenever I try to move it over to slicing it the whole bowl gets infilled. this is the file and everything looks like it should be fine but exporting makes the thing completely useless. im fairly new and pretty much have to relearn everything everytime I use the software. what have I done wrong on this file?
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/077885e76e2dc14435e179fd/w/2a705768f67d017c0bdba979/e/72fd28f49dcc6e3cd2390ff8
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If you select Add (cursor location) and check "Merge with all" this will combine all three parts into one solid model. That should resolve your issue.
A bowl is typically made with a revolve only. Much simpler:)
Note the thickness of the bowl is not sketched, only the outer face of it.
Note "thin" is picked in the revolve. This gives the bowl its thickness.
so an update. I managed to make it a different way, making another sketch and then rotating it around the center instead of 2 loft surfaces, the print is printing now properly. but my initial problem still remains. is there a way to close parts like that for future problems? because I can definitely tell I'm going to run into this same problem in the future.
@Pug_Wizard Yes, I guess I wasnt clear enough. If you select add for the last geometry created, this will perform a boolean merge embedded within the last geometry created. I believe this will give you the result you wanted.
Did you happen to try that?
-S