Solid conumdrum
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Love Solid Inspector. Can't live (in SU) without it.
But this piece is driving me nuts (short put actually )
The model has dozens of solids, some far more complex than this one, and I had no trouble. But this one, was a solid during its early construction. I test components with SI often as I create them; saves much sleuthing later on.
However, SU does not indicate it is a solid, but SI reports no errors.
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Not real sure what I did other than exploding it and making it a component again but it shows a solid now.
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There is a nested group of lines inside inside the questionable group...see below
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As d12dozr explained you have a nested part within it, deleting it fixes it so it's solid.
Nested parts are acceptable if they are solid- but this nested part is not solid in itself.
A solid can only contain edges that have 'two faces'.
Any edge with more or fewer faces will make the form non-solid.
So faceless edge, faces with one edge [flaps] or internal partitions [giving you edges with three, four or more faces] will all return a non-solid.
You should also note that if you have two volumes [e.g. cubes] that are themselves 'solid' and they are moved to have a common edge they will no longer be solid as that common-edge then has more than two faces... To avoid that either move the forms so that they remain separated and have a tiny gap between them and the two edges don't merge into one etc, or slide them so they do overlap and a small internal face is created, but that you can then erase without affecting the rest, returning the now combined forms to have a 'solid' status... -
Thanks all for the help.
I deleted the phantom group and all is well. No idea why it was there in the first place.
Tig, thanks for explaining why some of my solids had problems. I previously stumbled upon the fact that I can have multiple separated solids within a group/comp and now I use that "feature" in places.
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