thnx,

Must remember to build this step in each and every workflow.
Gonna try it before I open yours!

thnx mate!


s.

got it working allright!

thnx!

s.

Hi sven, yeah that's something particular to Network - I'm going to be working on fixing it up in v3 so that you will not need that scale down step to join networked pieces together.

- Michael

you da best. I'm purchasing the day my demo runs out.

gr.

s.

p.s.: you on twitter by any chance? I am, under id nonius3D

Hi sven, sorry no I'm not on twitter. Just replying here in the MoI forum keeps me plenty busy enough as it is... :)

- Michael

lol :-)

me knows who this is and looks around :) good you are tryin moi mate :)

hi max, nice to meet you inhere too!

sven

Dudes,

Made this little blutooth ear thingy with MOI.
As you can see I made it very small to make a solid out of it so that I can refine with booleans. But hey... I must be heading up the wrong road here :-)

what I did:

* scaled it down with scalde command
* select all > join
* select all > boolean > unite
* tried some cutout with a sphere but no luck.

Have to mention that when I single click the object it selects as a whole so it confuses me a bit.

gr.


sven

Hi sven, could you please post the 3DM model for your earpiece so I could take a look? You could e-mail it to me at moi@moi3d.com if you want to keep it private.

> Have to mention that when I single click the object it selects as a
> whole so it confuses me a bit.

Well you can easily have parts that join up on some sides but not others. There are a million possible ways that can happen, here's one quick example:



So notice there that those 4 surfaces can be joined together into one combined object, even though there is a gap there indicated in red? You have something similar to that.

One thing that can be good is to set up a keyboard shortcut with the following on it:

script: /* Highlight naked edges */ var gd = moi.geometryDatabase; gd.deselectAll(); var breps = gd.getObjects().getBreps(); for ( var i = 0; i < breps.length; ++i ) breps.item(i).getNakedEdges().setProperty( 'selected', true );


Then when you hit that key all "naked edges" (edges that belong to only 1 surface instead of being joined between 2 surfaces) will get highlighted, that can help to identify the areas where you have a hole.

- Michael

Trying your script, mailing the file when that fails...needs to keep some things private ;-)


thnx mate


s.

Great script,

It returns me indeed 5 bad seams.
Now how to fix them, that is another question. I feel like an idiot, pardon me for that :-)


sven

edit: no better school than trial and error! and ofcourse your help.

Hi sven,

> Now how to fix them, that is another question.

Well, it kind of depends on what the particular problem is in those areas. You may need to remodel some pieces if they were not built from the same curves or something like that.

Here's a quick kind of example - say I have some profile curves and I do 2 different sweeps along separate rails like this:










You can see that they surfaces kind of generally go in the same direction but there can easily be gaps between pieces if you build them with anything similar to this - to make things touch you would instead need to do something like make sure you use a 2-rail sweep so that the surface will be more controlled on all its sides.

There are also a lot of other ways you can get these kinds of problems, any kind of misalignments, pieces jutting out past some other piece instead of touching, etc... There are so many possible ways to make things that do not touch that I can't really give you a good solution without actually seeing your particular model.

- Michael

Yeah,

I understood right away it was something like that. That's why I started trying to fix the issues (4) by my self.
It is challenging but I learn a lot, no doubt.

later!

s.