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How do I fix Mesh Triangle

bbriggstkd

How do I fix Mesh Triangle
August 20, 2010 11:20PM

Registered: 13 years ago
Posts: 110

I'm new to this, all the tools, so I may just be missing something here. I created an object with sketchup, exported it as an stl. Then used netfabb to fix the mesh. When I load the file into sceinforge I get the message " Triangle mesh slice intesects itself. I've been trying things for hours but I can't figure it our. Earlier I got something about a hole in triangle mesh. What do I do to fix these?

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Traumflug

Re: How do I fix Mesh Triangle
August 21, 2010 04:47AM

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You did enough boolean operations to have a single piece of solid only, didn't you? If that's the case and it still doesn't work, switch to a CAD which is capable of producing proper STLs. OpenSCAD and Art of Illusion are known to work.

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bbriggstkd

Re: How do I fix Mesh Triangle
August 21, 2010 09:09AM

Registered: 13 years ago
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Thanks for the reply but I don't know what you are asking. What is a boolean operation? I know what booleans are I just don't know what it mean in relation to STL files.

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Traumflug

Re: How do I fix Mesh Triangle
August 22, 2010 05:08AM

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Boolean operations are those taking two bodies to make one: union, intersection, subtraction, etc ...

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rhmorrison

Re: How do I fix Mesh Triangle
August 22, 2010 06:13AM

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See the OpenSCAD User Manual/CSG Modelling page.

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