Problem with Solid Union

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Permalink Reply by martyn hogg on June 10, 2013 at 12:15pm

You can probably just save as an STL file from Rhino and then use this Netfabb online resource to check and repair the file...

Netfabb Cloud Resource

This usually always works for me unless the file is really complicated but I've used it many times to create STL files that my reprap printer can print.

Permalink Reply by Chris Tietjen on June 10, 2013 at 4:07pm

In general you need to have different solids for boolean union to work.  I hope you get the idea from this screenshot and the attached file.  The solids you created in your GH file fail I believe because they have non-manifold edge conditions where they would union.  Boolean union doesn't like non manifold edge conditions.

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Permalink Reply by James on March 22, 2015 at 2:28pm

@ Martyn

That is a great work around! Thanks for the tip!