Removing unwanted interior faces from a mesh?

tomot

There are a few rubies that were written to remove interior faces.

Wikii wrote one: remove_inner_faces.rb
& Kyyu wrote one: Delete_Interior_Faces.rb

both of these scripts no longer do what they were originally designed to do.
I'm wondering if changes, to the revised Ruby API lately, may have been the cause?

Is there another Ruby, which my Search may have missed, that still does this task?

Please find attached a small file which needs all interior faces to be removed, other then manually

faces.skp

TIG

My 'SolidSolver' ?
Group each 'finger' and process, as grouping so many balls-ups in one thing will exponentially extend the processing time !
You could also give such tools a fighting chance by using the hide/section-tool to temporary remove some 'sides' and then erasing a the more obvious internal partition-faces by hand...
Thomthom's SolidInspector will show the [many] problems... there are dozens of coincident faces, as well as intersecting internal partition-faces etc...
It'll be almost impossible to get it to 'fix' without some manual prep to help it...

faces.skp

pbacot

If we are talking manual methods. Some shapes, I have found, are easier to clear by smoothing, so that one can pick all outside faces easily, then delete the rest.

I think that does it successfully for such shapes (a couple french fries had a more than one surface, even when smoothed.) Getting them all solid takes seconds.

tomot

@tig said:

My 'SolidSolver' ?
Group each 'finger' and process, as grouping so many balls-ups in one thing will exponentially extend the processing time !

This is one thing I'm hoping Trimble is going to tackle one day, but I'm not holding my breath. The importance of new SketchUp icons takes precedence I guess?

tomot

@pbacot said:

I think that does it successfully for such shapes (a couple french fries had a more than one surface, even when smoothed.) Getting them all solid takes seconds.

The idea behind and efficient unwanted interior face removal is first required before any additional subdivision can take place, precisely to have the mesh look less french fry like

pbacot

French fries work for Frank Gehry!

I like your array better!