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Make Solid

Make Solid - Meshmixer Tutorial

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Make Solid

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- [Instructor] This video is on the Make Solid tool which is one of the standout features of Meshmixer that I use all the time to repair meshes. I have a bunny here that I used the Inspector tool to fix the bottom of so we have a nice manifold bunny. The Make Solid tool is used to repair meshes, to do boolean operations. Essentially it can be used like a shrink wrap tool. Let me show you what that means. I'm going to bring in Mesh Mix right here and bring in a sphere. The sphere is right here. I'm going to say Create New Object. Now we have two different objects here. We go View>Show Objects Browser and it's not coming up. There we go. So the Show Objects browser right here. We have two different parts, but I'm going to kind of merge these two parts together. Need to make this bigger to actually do this for a moment. Like this, alright, so we're going to merge these two and combine them so we have two objects. Move this back up. Meshmixer doesn't like to have a small window there. So…

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