Struggling to Create Mesh from Surface of Existing Mesh

[wim (Wim Dekeyser)]

@mbmast

When the Perspective view is set to Shaded, Rhino renders the model beautifully.

When shading, there are a lot of tricks involved. There is smoothing information in the mesh that makes things look good. And that is the way it’s supposed to be - there is nothing wrong with the mesh.

@mbmast

My objective is to 3D print this object, but I don’t want to print it as a solid object. It’s the base of a telephone and needs to be printed with walls that are 1mm (more/less) thick. Hence my desire to pull a mesh off the surface of the model.

The base of your telephone is less than 5 mm wide - having 1 mm thick walls will create self-intersecting meshes. Are you sure your dimensions are correct?

At any rate, in this thread, @laurent_delrieu describes a way of dealing with offsetting meshes:

3d scanned mesh

Hello I have done it using Grasshopper and a script I wrote, you will need Millepede plugin for GH (don’t care of the message) If you want to use the script beware it is a bit long, so Disable solver, put the offset you want 0.9 mm in “real unit”, load your mesh and enable the solver. I made an hole in order to have a unique mesh visible with clipping plane. Instead you must take care of direction (I think). [image] [image] [image] Anello 500_interior.3dm (1.2 MB) I