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Fixing difficult 3D scan problems: Thickening

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Fixing difficult 3D scan problems: Thickening

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- [Instructor] So now on this last video, we want to make this printable or usable in other operations like Booleans inside of Meshmixer. If we go into the Meshmixer shading mode, we can see that we have some back faces here and front faces here. So we want to make this a solid piece. Now normally, we might be be able to go in, to say Edit, and Make Solid, but the problem with this command is that it removes all of the color information because it re-meshes and makes solid the entire model. So you lose all of your color. If you're not dealing with color, then that's great. You could totally use the Make Solid command and it would get a good result. But I want to keep the color on the model. So we need to do it in a different way. So the way that we're going to do this is to go into the Select tool. We're just going to click here. And modify this selection, by saying Expand to Connected. So it's actually I'm just selecting everything in the model. Then go up here to Edit, to Extrude…

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