[Plugin] SolidSolver

ken

TIG

Found an interesting error. If I use this program to fix a non solid, and do nothing else except go to the file save option to save the file. Before the file is saved, the solid reverts back to the non solid status. If I do something other than go to save, like draw a line the file will save without reverting to the non solid.

TIG

Weird... I'll try to reproduce it...

Anton_S

Thanks, TIG!
SolidSolver is incredibly easy to use. Just go through a couple of steps and ur model is a solid! Although, it won't completely solve shapes that have edge with 3+ faces, but I understand it's complex.

jgb

TIG; Just curious....

Any reason SS does not work on components, but only on groups?

Since almost all my drawings are made of solid comps, I only use groups to keep stuff together, or for layering options. When SS says "Select a group..." when I select a comp, I have to edit the comp, select all, and group it to work, then explode the group. A bit of a pain.

Otherwise it works reasonably well on SU 8-Free. I generally like to cleanup my solids manually, after SI reports problems. SS tends to clobber very complex solids, which I generated in a quick but sloppy manner, so the fixing after SS may take longer than doing the fix manually in the first place.

Mind you, SS is far more adept at fixing some real toughies, such as co-linear lines, and co-resident faces. I had one "celebrated" comp that had 7 (count-em) 7 co-resident faces in 3 places. I went nuts fixing one of the faces, then sent SS after the others. I only had to redraw 2 lines to fix that after.

TIG

It could readily deal with component instances too - it's just easy to write for a group...

TIG

Here's v1.5 http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=359994#p359994
it now works on groups AND component instances; makes the result unique, if needs be.

Anton_S

jgb

@tig said:

Here's v1.5 http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=359994#p359994
it now works on groups AND component instances; makes the result unique, if needs be.

Thanks a bunch. I'll check it on Sunday.

smicha

Thank you TIG. Great work as always.

jgb

TIG;
Seems to work fine with comps now. Thanks for the response.

Bertier

@pout said:

Hey Tig, ...
Hey Pout good to see you there !
Sorry not to see you in Boulder !

Sergio Morera

Brilliant as usual!

TIG

Here's v1.6 http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=359994#p359994
It has:

Improved internal partition removal, even when they are not full width etc.
[It is still fool-able though!]
A context-menu item is now available if there is an appropriate selection.
Its progress ... is now indicated in the status-bar.

pbacot

Thanks TIG. This is something I am looking at daily--ways to make solids.

Probably an obvious idea to many: I was getting a shape that had way too many interior faces. I decided that with smoothing, I had very few outside surfaces to deal with. So I selected the outside surfaces one by one (double click) and grouped--and had a solid rather quickly, without fussing about the center.

Your work on this is really appreciated.

cotty

Thank you for the update!

smicha

Thank you TIG.

TIG

Here's v1.7 http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=359994#p359994
It has some speed improvements.
It has a better/harder-to-fool internal-partition removal algorithm.
The removal of coplanar-edges [if any] is now a final option.

TIG

Here's v1.8 http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=359994#p359994
It has some more speed improvements.
It has an even better/harder-to-fool internal-partition removal algorithm.
You can repeat the process once if it's still not solid.
You may also need to try processing again 'manually' - if there are several internal-partitions facing each other etc...

cotty

15 minutes between updates, that is fast
Thank you!

smicha

@cotty said:

15 minutes between updates, that is fast
Thank you!

Fast and accurate This is how TIG works

Thank you again TIG.