Convert surface to solid autocad

With that said, don't know how handy you are with iLogic, but in this thread link there is a program that convert solids to surfaces. Maybe you could modify it to do the reverse. Windows 10 x64 GB Ram Intel i 3. The Assembly is needed for an approval drawing, more or less just as a visual aid to show a customer what we will be building. They don't need specific dimensions or details, but I tried to convert it as you suggested, and it went back to the transparent yellow when I clicked "Finish Freeform".

That's my bad for not being more specific. But I'm glad you found it, I was worried something was really wrong! Something else to watch for, when you make the drawing, if the imported part does not appear, you may need to go into the view options, recovery options, and select "include surface bodies". As a side note, I opened your part - it is a surface model with a bunch of gaps. If you zoom in near the face of the part where there are some characters molded in, you will see gaps in the surface geometry.

As long as those gaps exist, Inventor does not know how to convert the surfaces into solids and you would need to close all of those gaps before inventor cant make it solid. We refer to this sometimes as the surfaces being "watertight". In your case, I think trying to convert to a solid would take a lot of tedious work to close all the gaps. Notice: updates available for Apache Log4j vulnerabilities.

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When you convert mesh objects to 3D solids, the shape of the new solid object approximates, but does not exactly duplicate, the original mesh object. You can also specify whether coplanar faces are merged, which optimizes them.

For example, the illustrated 3D mesh was first modified by increasing its smoothness level, and then it was converted into a smooth 3D solid. Examine the preview, and select the side of the surface you want to thicken, as shown below. Enter the Thickness.

Note that when you select Thicken Both Sides , it adds the Thickness you specify to both sides. Surface body is a general term that describes connected zero-thickness geometries such as single surfaces, knit surfaces, trimmed and filleted surfaces , and so on. You can have multiple surface bodies in a single part.

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