I'm sure the solution is obvious, but for some odd reason it is really escaping me....
This is my first full design using SU, and I am now to the point where I am taking all the bits and pieces I made and copying them over to clean SU drawings to do the G-Code. I took the 3D drawing of the fuse, and sliced it up up to get the sides, and formers where I wanted them and at the proper size. I then took the slices and make parts to copy to the drawing for the G-code. All was going well until I got to this one former. It was a closed face until I changed one small thing. I decided I wanted a doubler, so I "cut" a relief in the part for that. That's when it lost the face, and no matter what I do, I can't get it back.
I erased each line one at a time and re-drew it.
I tried the weld tool. It asked me to close curve. I tried yes and no with no change. It then asks me if I want to make it a face, and I say yes, but no face.
I tried repair broken lines, and it says 0 lines repaired.
When I view it on edge, it is a line, so I am assuming it is all on the plane.
Any ideas?
THANKS in advance. Attached files ETFormer.skp (9.6 KB)Â

 

rcav8r,
Somewhere in there even if it is just one pixel it is off the zero plane. I know you can see it as a line from the side view but it cannot be flat and I am betting it is where you made your doubler.
Did you try to use the flatten to 2D plug-in on it?
If you do not have that plug-in send me just that part and I will flatten it out for you.
Mark

 

Flattened to 2D worked.

[attachment=0]ETFormer[1]Flattened.skp[/attachment]


Cheers E-T Attached files Flattened.skp]ETFormer[1]Flattened.skp (9.7 KB)Â

 

Hay Mark... File is attached to first post.
I'm sure your right. Really weird part is I split the part in half, and it is a face. I then mirror it, and I have the part that has a face, and as soon as I delete the line where the mirrored parts join, the face goes away.
THANKS... Attached files

 

THANKS ET.. must have posted while I was trying to cobble together a post
Still doesn't make sense as when it was split it was a face. When I joined them it was 2 faces.. When I removed the line... they were gone.
THANKS again

 

Yea I have been messing with it for a while now. Its off but not by much. I can't track it down where?? I think it is off on two plains not just one. I think like This


If you put a line across the corners with the face you can see it.




I still can't get it rite without flatten to 2-D

Cheers
E-T

PS

I just tried to add Phlatcode to it and got this error?

Attached files

 

I just flattened it, then made faces. The outside tool worked on it just fine for me.

Here is the fixed former. Attached files Fixed.skp]ETFormer[1] Fixed.skp (9.9 KB)Â

 

Glad to hear its working for you now. I think our own flatten to 2D is in order, built right into the script
Mark

 

Thanks again guys... Fixed part "printed" just fine.

Yea, a flatten to 2D would be a great feature to build into the script