Wrap tool available ?

[WOFF3D]

Hi,

Does anyone know if there is a wrap tool available somewhere. For instance, when obtaining a 3D house model (or car) with all interior inside and you ONLY want to 3D print the outer contour (in a specific thickness), you definitely would like some kind of a wrap tool for that.

Any suggestions ?

[oceanembers]

I'm not aware of any such plugin. For a manual method, if your individual pieces are solid, you could try a subtracting them all from a cube. No idea how well this would work.

[sdmitch]

@woff3d said:

Hi,

Does anyone know if there is a wrap tool available somewhere. For instance, when obtaining a 3D house model (or car) with all interior inside and you ONLY want to 3D print the outer contour (in a specific thickness), you definitely would like some kind of a wrap tool for that.

Any suggestions ?

Using the Section Plane, right click on it and choose "Create Group From Slice". Erase the Section Plane, edit the created group and erase everything inside.

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[WOFF3D]

Thanks. Section plane is a too simple approach. SuSolid or Solid Inspector2 is probably the closest to what I look for but even those won't wrap easy. Just wrap, no questions asked ....

[Jim]

I think the I-materialize extension has a shell feature. Find it in the Extensions Warehouse.

[WOFF3D]

Hi Jim,

Thanks for your answer. I always use https://netfabb.azurewebsites.net/ which is great, but an external step. I would like to wrap within SU because stl im- and export always takes a lot of time AND removes layer/material data.