Artifacts problem

Can someone tell me what these are? The surface was taller, I extruded it down 1/2" and I get these artifacts and blue lines where the original surface was (2nd image.)

And, more importantly - will it affect a CNC cut? The artifacts don’t show up in wireframe, only shaded and ghosted.

I’ve got a lot more surfaces to extrude downwards so I hope there’s a solution to this.
Thanks.!

Hm - yeah, that looks ugly - can you send us the curves (tech@mcneel.com)

-Pascal

That looks like your original curves might be pretty messed up - check to see if they are not full of micro segments and other noise. Turn on control points and/or explode the curve to see. You may end up needing to completely re-do them, FitCrv might possibly be a semi-automatic solution. If you can post one of the offending curves here, someone can have a look.

–Mitch

Hi Alex - from the model you sent it’s hard to say what went wrong at this stage, without the input objects, but my guess is one or more Boolean operations was involved and the surface edges got out of whack- to fix it, ExtractSrf each of the surfaces that has the crazy edges and isocurves and delete, then Loft between the upper and lower edges of the resulting gap.

-Pascal