Hey TIG,

the second is what i thought would be good first but i couldn't manage to get the object manifold in the result so i wasn't able to print that. I've tried curviloft for that and it worked great. I think my object was the problem.

In the end i tried to simplify it and drawed something like in your first picture this morning which seems to work well.

I'll post an image of the printed part later on but anyway thanks for all your great tips.

@TIG you didn't arrange this pictures just for me, did you?

Hi,

i'm trying to model a fan duct that will be 3d printed later on.
This is what it looks like so far.

Unfortunately my modelling skills are rather basic so far. I'm looking for a way to connect the fan mount (the big hole on the right) to the outlet on the buttom and have a well formed duct. Is there any way / plugin to 'morph' from the circle to let's say a rectangle on the bottom to generate a smooth duct?

In the result it should be something similar to this (even if this isn't very good and of course it's not designed by me)

Thanks for helping me out of this

Thanks guy for your replies and TIG, thanks for your plugin - i'll check that all out later - sure that'll help.

Hi,

i'm working with Sketchup to model for 3d printing. Therefore i export to stl files. It's absolutely crucial that these exported models must have a closed surface which means there must not be any edges with only one connected face.

Is there any chance (maybe a plugin?) that helps repairing objects that have problems here? These open surfaces ofte are really, really small which makes finding and rapairing them manually a really hard job.

Thanks for helping,

Frank