Anything better than Shrinkwrap? 1

[treddie]

Hi.

Is there anything better than Shrinkwrap to get one solid body from a part that is composed of both facet data and intersecting solid/surface features? Shrinkwrap is a cool idea, but even its highest quality mode is just awful for holding model fidelity.

Thank you very much for any responses.

 

[SS65SuperNova]

I am not sure exactly what you need it for, but for example I had to make a tire envelope of suspension in all positions so that the finders could be designed around that envelope. And yes that is the best I have found as of yet! Unfortunately

 

[treddie]

Arghhhh! I was afraid of that. I basically had to take a very faithfully produced human hand, glove like thing of about 1.5mm thick, built in ProE, and try to get it exported out as an STL for Rapid prototype. To make a long story short, I wanted to stay completely solid, but had to resort to meshing the whole thing in the end to get a decent thicken, and then added more solid work to that. The result was a solid & mesh "gene-splice" that I finally took all the individual parts of, and converted all to mesh, then Boolean Union'd all that in Lightwave. My big worry is if it will be watertight.