Hi Michael,
at the time I wrote message 4123.19 I had only the no save version but I downloaded the 30 days version. Since I had to start from scratch I tried a few different things. Instead of creating the faces 1 by 1 and joining them into a close volume, I used booleans ops, a 2 rail sweep and I used a fillet instead of the 1 rail sweep.
I haven't finish what I wanted to do but I uploaded the new file as requested. This new version doesn't present the same qualities as the jpg I shown previously. Basically, we can't compare the two, this one seems much better and MOI reports it's a solid. Also, I deleted most if not all the construction items I used but if you try to select edges around the fillet or the sweep you will see that only a single part of a edge can be selected at a time and this may add a bit of complexity if further operation are required, unless of course if there is way to rejoin those parts into a single element.
I understand that it must have been pretty difficult to figure out what I meant from just a few line of text and a jpeg. I apologize, from now on, I'll supply a file.
Out of curiosity again, I can foresee the need of say warping a rather simple shape like the (flat) medallion in my file to fit on the curve part of the post and I think it will most likely be most of the time on cylindrical shape like in this case, do you think it's possible to write a script to do just that? Before you even think of it, I'm thinking of writing it myself of course but I would just like to know if you think it's possible with the currently available MOI JavaScript classes, methods, etc?
Regards,
Felix
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