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Anything better than Shrinkwrap?

Anything better than Shrinkwrap?

Anything better than Shrinkwrap?

(OP)
Hi.

Is there anything better than Shrinkwrap to get one solid body from a part that is composed of both facet data and intersecting solid/surface features?  Shrinkwrap is a cool idea, but even its highest quality mode is just awful for holding model fidelity.

Thank you very much for any responses.

RE: Anything better than Shrinkwrap?

I am not sure exactly what you need it for, but for example I had to make a tire envelope of suspension in all positions so that the finders could be designed around that envelope.  And yes that is the best I have found as of yet!  Unfortunately

RE: Anything better than Shrinkwrap?

(OP)
Arghhhh!  I was afraid of that.  I basically had to take a very faithfully produced human hand, glove like thing of about 1.5mm thick, built in ProE, and try to get it exported out as an STL for Rapid prototype.  To make a long story short, I wanted to stay completely solid, but had to resort to meshing the whole thing in the end to get a decent thicken, and then added more solid work to that.  The result was a solid & mesh "gene-splice" that I finally took all the individual parts of, and converted all to mesh, then Boolean Union'd all that in Lightwave.  My big worry is if it will be watertight.
 

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