New tutorial: fixing non-manifold models

March 31, 2009

We just published a new tutorial on fixing non-manifold errors in your models, with lots of examples and videos. Please let us know if there’s anything you think we missed and we’ll add it!

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I spent several hours yesterday night trying to fix model errors that didn’t show up in Meshlab or Blender, but that didn’t go through Shapeways (mostly inverted normals error). I thought it might be useful to know how I fixed it (I was using ViaCAD Pro). It seemed to be a problem with overlapping solids.

In the end I did a “merge solids” (or “add solids”) for all connected parts, and then it passed all checks. You can see the final model here: Final Model