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    3D Print Terrain, solid, JointPushPull

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    • J Offline
      Jmlove
      last edited by

      Hi Folks,

      I am new to this forum, although using Sketchup for a while for simplier task I am now experience the use together with 3D-printing.

      I have this attached file, surface generated from free painted terrain curves from a scanned in terrain JPG-file, repositioned to the right terrain height... we're talkin' x0000 of millimeters height.

      I've red over and over that I need to make water tight solid for 3Dprinting and I have tried the Fred06 plugin JointPushPull as well as trying to connect the edges to a vertical z-plane to make a solid (straight lines down to a plane). The JointPushPull works but NOT when I want to move and make a plane bottom surface on the terrain (thickness with plane bottom), I end up with a "not valid argument fault". Is there something I need to do with my surface, clean up (if so what), connect lines...(?)

      If someone can guide me further in any direction, and maybe also have a look at the file and make it with a meter of solid thickness with plane bottom, that would have been great!

      Thanks!

      Jmlove


      testsurface.skp

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        d12dozr
        last edited by

        Hi Johan, welcome to the forum!

        sdmitch made a plugin that is handy for terrain: Add Terrain Skirt, which is the 2nd plugin in his post.

        See the attached file, which was created in seconds with his plugin.


        testsurface-Solid.JPG


        testsurface-Solid.skp

        3D Printing with SketchUp Book
        http://goo.gl/f7ooYh

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          JGA
          last edited by

          d12dozr, thanks for pointing out this plugin.

          Regards,
          JGA

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            Jmlove
            last edited by

            @d12dozr said:

            Hi Johan, welcome to the forum!

            sdmitch made a plugin that is handy for terrain: Add Terrain Skirt, which is the 2nd plugin in his post.

            See the attached file, which was created in seconds with his plugin.

            Perfect thank you, that worked like a charm... now I will try out to stamp my house and finally print!

            πŸ˜„

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              d12dozr
              last edited by

              Cheers, glad that helped πŸ‘

              3D Printing with SketchUp Book
              http://goo.gl/f7ooYh

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