I'm attempting to shell out a body but am encountering some errors:
"one of the faces may offset into an adjacent face, a small face may need to be eliminated, or one of the faces ..."
The diagnostic tool that comes up shows two error tags as shown in the attached screenshot:
At this point I'm getting close to nearly complete as for modeling, and would like to keep moving forward. Thanks in advance.
p.s. Part is attached too.
Supposed to be .150
I think .150 is thick for all of the sharp corners at the front - I've tried to smooth out the nose (hopefully it won't affect the overall profile you have for this model) and run successfully with .02" thickness - if you smooth out all the corners, then you should be able to apply shell feature for the whole body
Funny thing is, the bottom half shelled well enough to not be a problem. It was the upper half that was giving me problems in that particular model. Ideas for that?
Opp... I didn't look at the top part - Actually, it's worse - How'd you apply 0.15 thickness shell feature with .04" section?
Get rid of all small features - see below image - and put it back after you apply shell feature
Damnit. I didn't see that. Although, while I do need to fix that, that didn't come up as one of the problem faces in the diagnostic tool
In general the shelling should be done as soon as the bulk shape is well defined, but before things such as holes and openings. You probably only have to rollback before these holes and such and then apply your shell. Of course you'll need to make sure the gotcha things are taken care of as Christian Chu has been showing you.
Good point, Dennis
I think I scared the hell of Jeremy when I said "Get rid of", as it might be interpreted as deleting all of them. Rolling back would be a better term
Thanks
I rolled back before all the cuts and attempted the shell again just to be sure, but it still gave me the error.
Here are a few screenshots of what I believe to be the problem:
Notice it points to a vertex between two boundary bosses (that were then mirrored). I noticed a strange curvature display, and from what I can tell it seems the vertex is the problem for the shell error. I don't want to have to go back and re-build this thing or I'm going to lose my mind.
Are you sure all corners smooth and no weird small sections ?
What thickness you want for the skin?