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Surface to Solid conversion problems

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Topic: Surface to Solid conversion problems
Posted By: SHANEM87
Subject: Surface to Solid conversion problems
Date Posted: 19.Jun.2013 at 19:52
Hey everyone,
    This is my first post here, and I was never forally trained on autocad, so please excuse me if I'm not using the proper terminology. I have surface that was given to me and I need to convert it to a solid in order to cut it on our CNC. The surface is very complex and I believe there may be some tiny gaps that are preventing me from converting it to a solid. I've been reading a lot of the forums and I've done the usual conversion techniques, such as the convert to solid command. I've also converted it to a mesh and tried converting it to a solid that way but no luck. Any advice would be great, Thanks!


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Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 19.Jun.2013 at 23:58
Too bad your stuck with AutoCAD 2008 as you might have better luck using the SURFSCULPT command.  Then again, if there are gaps then your chances of success with any command are going to be slim to none.


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Posted By: SHANEM87
Date Posted: 20.Jun.2013 at 02:50
Actually, we've recently been updated to Autocad 2013

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Posted By: SHANEM87
Date Posted: 20.Jun.2013 at 13:15
Well, I was able to load my surface into Inventor and stich it together. After I exported it back into Autocad as a block reference I was able to explode it and it came out as a 3d solid. Now the only problem is that this 3d solid has about a zillion different points and is so complex that even trying to move it takes about 5 minutes.

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Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 20.Jun.2013 at 13:34
Time to buy a new computer perhaps?

What kind of file size are we talking here?

What are your computer specs?


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"Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance."

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Posted By: SHANEM87
Date Posted: 20.Jun.2013 at 13:41
The file is 44.5 MB, my computer is a Dell 3.60 GHz processor 8 GB of RAM

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Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 20.Jun.2013 at 14:57
Yeah, I could see why you would have problems.  What are you going to do about it?




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"Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance."

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Posted By: SHANEM87
Date Posted: 20.Jun.2013 at 15:34
Lol, I'm not really sure. I was trying to figure out how to smooth out the solid, or just somehow reduce the amount of grips, but I'm out of ideas now.


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I'll never stop learning.

Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 20.Jun.2013 at 15:51
With the system you are currently running I think you will have your hands full.


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"Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance."

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