Cannot resolve naked edges to prepare for 3d printing. Newbie

Hi,

I'm new to both Rhino and Grasshopper. I made a model following an online tutorial and would like to have it 3d printed. Instead of a watertight solid model, I seem to have a series of cuboid structures lined up, that are separate from each other, as when I analyze the structure, they are all naked edges. I have tried every command I can think of to join these edges together, but nothing is working.

I was wondering if anyone could guide me through how to join these edges so the model is suitable for 3D printing.

Thank you

I enclose the files.

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Permalink Reply by Filippos Filippidis on February 19, 2015 at 2:33pm

Done! you just had to bake the geom and then union the whole thing with a base srf..

No naked edges anymore

Attachments:

Union.3dm, 3.5 MB

Permalink Reply by Chihiro on February 19, 2015 at 3:41pm

Thank you so much for your help Filippos!!

If it's not too much trouble, could you explain to me what you mean by 'union the whole thing with a base srf', and tell me the actions you took to achieve that, so I am able to replicate it in further models.

I have just started using this program and I am still completely lost when trying to use it.

Thanks again.

Permalink Reply by Filippos Filippidis on February 19, 2015 at 4:38pm

Hi Chichiro,

after baking the geometry into rhino use the command boolean union.

then you will see that your model has no underside, so i just added a surface to close it basically making it watertight..

thats it!

hope this is clear

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