From the course: Rhino: Modeling for 3D Printing
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Closing holes - Rhino Tutorial
From the course: Rhino: Modeling for 3D Printing
Closing holes
- [Instructor] Let's look at a few more model examples that are open polysurfaces to see how we can close those holes in different ways. So in our first example, you can see I have a screw right here and it's an open polysurface. I can use the command Show Edges and here we identified our opening. So it looks like we have just one opening here. And because the edge of this opening is made up of a series of straight edges, I think we could use the command Cap to close this. That was a really quick way to make this a closed solid polysurface. There's a few other methods we could use to close this as well, so I'm going to undo that. We could either use Surface from 3 to 4 points, or a Rectangular plane, or one of my favorite commands, Rectangular plane from 3 points. So I'm going to select that one and I have Project off and I'm going to snap to my openings right here. All right, and I'm going to select everything and Join…
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