From the course: Meshmixer: Additive Manufacturing Job Preparation
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Fixing mesh issues - Meshmixer Tutorial
From the course: Meshmixer: Additive Manufacturing Job Preparation
Fixing mesh issues
- [Male Instructor] 3D models can be made up of millions of polygons. With so many little pieces of geometry making up an object, it's very common that something goes wrong with a few of them. There might be some polygons missing, corrupted, attached incorrectly to neighboring polygons, or there could be unnecessary bits of geometry floating around causing problems. In this video, I'll show you how to use Meshmixer's tools for fixing these issues. Okay, so I've got my exercise file loaded. And to start, I'm going to go to Analysis. And let's go up to Inspector. So, what this does is, it shows us all the different areas where there might be problems. Now, sometimes it flags things as problems, or potential problems, that are actually perfectly fine. First, let's take a look at a blue one. Now, blue means that there's a hole. So, I intentionally made this model with a hole back here. And you can see it's outlining it as blue. So, Meshmmixer can automatically fix that for us. If we click…
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