Tycoon Peter Jones Ebookers. Rating: 0.0/ 5 (0 votes cast) Select a Non-Solid Group/Component-Instance and run the tool from the menu. If it contains nested groups or instances you are warned, and given the option to explode these – it will never be a ‘solid’ otherwise. It analyzes the object’s form for holes, which it heals, small faces [also healed] and removes partitions/flaps that are making the form ‘non-manifold’, and it also removes unneeded unfaced/coplanar edges etcand finally it merges any ‘split’ colinear edges.
It then reports on the results ‘solidity’.
Free Updates for 1 Sketchup. Solid Check section that shows you all the. Just try to do it manually and you will see how much time the SuSolid plugin can. A brilliant plugin. I use it daily. It helps create clean models. Which can be more easily transported to other programs, such as Vue, and rendered more easily too.
Copyright 2011-2017 TIG (c) Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any purpose, and currently without fee, is hereby granted, provided that this text and the above copyright (c) notice appear in all copies. This software is provided 'as is' and without any express or implied warranties, including, without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. ### Parts are based on ThomThom's 'solid_inspector' tool which can also be used prior to this tool, so that you get a better understanding of what is wrong with your Non-Solid Group.
### Name: TIG-solidsolver.rb ### Menu: 'Tools' >'SolidSolver' Context-menu: >'SolidSolver' ### Usage: [Note this works on >= v8 only] Select a Non-Solid Group/Component-Instance and run the tool from the menu or context-menu. If it contains nested groups or instances you are warned, and given the option to explode these - it could never be a 'solid' otherwise.
It analyzes the object's form for holes [which it heals], small faces [also healed] and removes partitions/flaps that are making the form 'non-manifold', and it merges any 'split' colinear edges. If there are any coplanar edges it asks if you want to remove them.