Open areas and rounded surface

[Dave R]

@Alohaa I don't know why it is that you don't have the button but I did get your file.

Looking at sections through the objects it appears to me that you probably started out by drawing all of the features for each object in 2D and then started extruding face upward. This results in missing faces as well as internal faces.

Your objects can be cleaned up but it would probably be easier just to start over modeling it all correctly. If I were modeling these parts I would model them in a way that is very similar to the way filament gets laid down by a 3D printer. Don't model features until you come to them in the height. Don't spend so long thinking in 2D.

There are also a number of stray edges. And what is your intend for the rim of the top piece? Currently you have a zero thickness face between the wall of the box and the surrounding rim. That won't work as it is. Also. What's the story with the text? As it is, that won't print.

Edit to add: I recorded a silent video showing a way to model the bottom part of the enclosure. Note that I did not outline the sides of the box or the raised screw bosses until after the bottom thickness was created. Only the features that would be outlined on the build plate of the 3D printer are modeled before the thing becomes 3D.
https://flic.kr/p/2q2Jwda

Another thing I did and have talked about in previous threads here is set units to Meters and model as if millimeters are meters. This allows the use of more segments for small radius curves.

I finished the box parts as solids.

HERE IS THE SKETCHUP FILE OF MY VERSION OF YOUR MODEL
Kasten fur Manaboard~.skp

[Alohaa]

Thank you very much for all the work you have done!
It's actually not that complicated if you proceed as in your video.

The text is not printed; it just gives this block, which represents the ManaBoard with its structure, a name.

[Alohaa]

You have attached an SU file. You must not have drawn everything (?), because there are also open areas under the holes and at the bottom edge of the lid in this file.

[Dave R]

@Alohaa I DID draw everything. I left your original objects in the background. They are missing faces as I showed in the first screenshots in my post from yesterday. The ones I created are centered on the model origin and have all required faces. There is an active section cut which I left so you could see the interior of the objects I modeled. You can turn off the Section Cut though to see the objects in their entirety.

[Alohaa]

Far be it from me to contradict you, but when I look at the parts from below, I think I see open surfaces. Sorry.

By the way, it doesn't matter, but my drawings are not in your file

[Box]

@Alohaa My guess is you have opened the wrong model file.
Pretty clear here that Dave's model contains correct geometry.

[Dave R]

@Alohaa I think @Box has put his finger on it. You must be opening the wrong file. As you can see in his GIF as well as in my screen shots, my version with the section cut and your original model in the background are present.

[Alohaa]

Sorry, but there was only 1 file attached here, from you 2 days ago, and you removed it, I assume, because it is no longer in your post.

The file I downloaded, 2 times, hence the number 2 after the name (which also indicates that it is the downloaded file), contains only my drawings, unlike the one shown by @Box in the gif posted earlier. And he (or she) didn't post an SU file!

Am I crazy or am I right?

Update: I have found the file below the image, of which I first thought it was the name.

So, everything is fine! Sorry

[Dave R]

@Alohaa said in Open areas and rounded surface:

Sorry, but there was only 1 file attached here, from you 2 days ago, and you removed it, I assume, because it is no longer in your post.

I did not remove the file. It is still there immediately under the screenshot. How do you think Box was able to open my file?

I made it more clear in that post.

The file I downloaded, 2 times, hence the number 2 after the name (which also indicates that it is the downloaded file), contains only my drawings, unlike the one shown by @Box in the gif posted earlier. And he (or she) didn't post an SU file!

There was no reason for him to share the file since it's the same as the one in my post.

Am I crazy or am I right?

Sorry. Of those two choices, I'd have to say you're crazy.

[Alohaa]

@Dave-R Let's say, I was crazy, until I opened the eyes.
How can I remove the sectioning? I have never used this function (like many others!).

[Dave R]

@Alohaa said in Open areas and rounded surface:

@Dave-R
How can I remove the sectioning? I have never used this function (like many others!).

Select the section plane and press Delete.

[Box]

@Alohaa said in Open areas and rounded surface:

Am I crazy or am I right?

You've asked this twice in this thread alone. In this case you aren't 'right'.

[Alohaa]

@Box I am reassured to read I would not be right to be crazy

[Alohaa]

What I still don't know: how can I guide the rounding on the lid around the corner?

[Dave R]

@Alohaa what are you referring to now? What lid? What rounding?

[Alohaa]

The rounding that can be seen in my first post and that I only managed to draw until the corner.

[Box]

@Alohaa Create a suitable profile and use follow me.

[Alohaa]

ok, I understand the principle.
What I have some difficulties to understand is the method how you fill the surface.

[Dave R]

@Alohaa Box double clicked on the surface of the large hole which selected the surface and its edges. Then he pressed Delete. The hole was automatically filled in.

[Box]

@Dave-R said in Open areas and rounded surface:

@Alohaa

How about the button to the right of the Image Upload button?

Here is a link to were it first became apparent to me.
Dave has an upload button and we don't.