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What Is a closed model?

What Is a closed model? - Rhino Tutorial

From the course: Rhino: Modeling for 3D Printing

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What Is a closed model?

- [Instructor] To guarantee that your digital model will successfully 3D print, you need to create one solid mass of your project. What that means is there needs to be a clearly defined inside volume of your model. That way, when you export your design and import it into your 3D printing software, that program will understand where to deposit material to build up your model. If your model isn't closed or is just a collection of separate poly-surfaces, you're probably going to come across a few issues. Rhino makes it pretty easy to identify these issues early on, though, so let's take a look at some of those tools. In this example file, I have five massings at 1:40 scale that represent a real world building. And they all look pretty similar right now in this rendered view. But if I switched to shaded, you can start to see visually that the geometry is represented slightly differently between each one of these examples. So…

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