Hi,
I'm quite new to FreeCAD and have been following this tutorial to get my bearings.
I've completed the cube and attempted to export to stl (and subsequently to mesh the part) in an attempt to use in Cura to 3D print however, the hollow faces all become solid when I mesh. I've exported the meshed part, opened in Cura and FreeCAD to the same result.
I've done some reading but I'm not sure where I'm going wrong.
Turner Cube meshing with solid faces
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Turner Cube meshing with solid faces
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Re: Turner Cube meshing with solid faces
Welcome to the forum.
In your file sketch001 is not good, you can see that in the treeview because there is a red mark on the sketch. Deleting and remake the constraints solve the problem.
One more advice: Do not use such old tutorials the Freecad program has changed a lot. Recent tutorials you can find here https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Tutorials
In your file sketch001 is not good, you can see that in the treeview because there is a red mark on the sketch. Deleting and remake the constraints solve the problem.
One more advice: Do not use such old tutorials the Freecad program has changed a lot. Recent tutorials you can find here https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Tutorials
Re: Turner Cube meshing with solid faces
If you want to slightly speed up the process you can use the attached macro. Firstly you need to edit line 24 and put in the correct location of your Cura install. If you are using Part Design Wb make sure the Body is selected before running the macro. Note if you end up building assemblies, you will need to hide all the components you don't want to 3D print and please don't thank me, I didn't write the code, the author is on line 5.
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OS: Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601: SP 1)
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.20.29177 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-20
Hash: 68e337670e227889217652ddac593c93b5e8dc94
Python 3.8.10, Qt 5.15.2, Coin 4.0.1, Vtk 8.2.0, OCC 7.6.2
Locale: English/United Kingdom (en_GB)
Installed mods:
* A2plus 0.4.56a
* CfdOF 1.17.4
* Curves 0.5.1
* fasteners 0.3.50
* fcgear 1.0.0
* freecad.xray 2022.4.17
* Manipulator 1.4.9
* Plot 2022.4.17
* sheetmetal 0.2.55
* Silk 1.0.0
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Re: Turner Cube meshing with solid faces
Thank you - this worked a charm and makes sense.Willem wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 6:45 pm Welcome to the forum.
In your file sketch001 is not good, you can see that in the treeview because there is a red mark on the sketch. Deleting and remake the constraints solve the problem.
One more advice: Do not use such old tutorials the Freecad program has changed a lot. Recent tutorials you can find here https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Tutorials
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Re: Turner Cube meshing with solid faces
When a step in the construction tree has a problem (red icon), all the downstream construction is not recomputed (blue icon).
So the mesh of the last step will select the last working step.
So the mesh of the last step will select the last working step.
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