How do you fill a solid?

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Hi all

In order to create a small robot, I downloaded a . STL, which I managed (not without difficulty....) to modify into a STEP file. So I now have a solid, but the problem is that it is "empty", there is only the outline, so I would like to fill it to perform a shell function and create the internal structure of my robot. Anyone know how I can fill this solid? (I work under solidworks 2014 or 2016 mainly, but I also have Inventor etc).

 

Thanks in advance;)

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Hello

There is not much we can do with an STL, the best would be to redesign...

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It is currently a STEP file, with an outer surface drawn and considered solid ;) but the object is empty :/

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If the faces are well joined then you have to sew the faces and check the option form a solid.

may the force be with you.

 

 

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Can we do it with solidworks? When I go to the Insert>Surface>Stitched menu, it doesn't offer me to fill the object

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Hello

normally he doesn't offer you to put the object back, but to create a solid as OBI WAN says , but it's the same thing. If he doesn't offer it, it's because there are unjoined surfaces and you have to fill them in to create a solid. 

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here

may the force be with you.


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indeed I am trapped, my 3D object being a scan at the base, it must contain a defect.... Maybe by trying to smooth it out to find the flaw?


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You may want to check your surfaces.

Tools --> Evaluate --> Check

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Hello

When you open file you select the type of STL file then you will have access to the import options and there you must have something to have solids. I don't really know what it's called anymore.

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Hello

To follow up on Obiwan, you can delete a face, rebuild it with a filler and do the obiwan manipulation.

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Here is a screen of the options for opening an STL file


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Depending on your version of solidworks, you need to rebuild the creation tree (Feature Works tool)

to obtain a body

For the moment I understand  a step in surface

since it is impossible to import in volume

a walkthrough but depending on the complexity of the room there is a lot of work

it's to recreate x surface on this said step to sew these X surfaces

once all surfaces are sewn

if the goal is to create a thickness of skin 

it is therefore sufficient to thicken this said surface

and the volume will be created

@+ ;-)

 

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