Hi! For a naval architecture senior design project, I’m trying to move our full size Rhino model ship into Maestro Marine (FE tool). I need to create watertight meshes for FE analysis from planar surfaces, and I keep getting very very small holes along the borders of meshes. When I use the FillAllHoles command, the naked edges disappear, but then I’m left with overlapping mesh faces, which the FE tool also doesn’t agree with.
I’m not sure how to go about fixing this issue. I’ve tried just about every YouTube tutorial and chat forum advice that I could find to either fix the mesh or the overlapping faces. I even tried importing the geometry into blender, creating meshes there, and then importing back into Rhino and, still, naked edges.
If anyone knows how to fix this problem, please let me know.
I had similar issues with 3d models for 3d printing and the ShrinkWrap command basically solve 99% of it.
Other than that, when I used Ansys for analysis I found it that the SpaceClaim tool inside ansys had amazing shortcuts to fixing the geometries. So instead of trying to export perfectly from rhino, I just used its native tools to fix the issues inside the workbench. Maybe your software has something similar.
If not, the easiest way to fix a mesh problem in rhino is fixing the surfaces used to create it, If the mesh is failing, probably the surfaces have the naked edges as well and they are outside your file tolerances. But for that the file or even some screen captures would help a lot to visualize the problem.