3D print from 3D voronoi with cells, can't union pipes and cells

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Hi,
I’m not sure if i should put this under grasshopper or rhino so sorry if u see this twice!

I’m trying to create a 3d voronoi inside a certain geometry, I want to create a frame of tubes with a certain thickness, but with grasshopper it creates all seperate closed polysurfaces. I cant boolean union it, but i want to make it 1 object instead off 2000 polysurfaces so I can 3d print it.

I also want some cells still in it and a frame around it (like in the screenshot). I baked the pipes for the tubes and the solid intesection for the different cells, the frame around the geometry is 1 polysurface i made manually. All of this should be 1 object to 3d print, but right now i can’t boolean union all of this.

Do you guys know how to clean this up? Or how i can make a 3d print mesh out of this?

i’ll put my GH file and my geometry to start with in this post, toghether with a picture of what i want to 3d print.

thank you!!

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geometry.3dm (354.5 KB)
Voronoi.gh (6.6 KB)

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What 3d printing service/software are you using?
Many of them can handle overlapping solids as long as each of them is closed, so you might not even need to boolean it in Rhino.

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Well i heard this before, but i’m a student and part of my task is to make 1 closed polysurface :confused:

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Hello - the parts in your file Union just fine but do not match the object in the image.

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-Pascal

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No, i want to use my gh file on te geometry inside of the frame, that way i get the object in the image, but the voronoi consists out of a lot of different pipes i want to union

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this is the geometry i want to use as brep