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Your last resort: Remodeling using Meshmixer tools

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Your last resort: Remodeling using Meshmixer tools

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- [Instructor] Now if all else fails, and you have to, have to, have to get this model, the only real option is to remodel it. Now this was made in a parametric CAD program, so geometric shapes like this might be better made in a different tool. But you certainly can do some of the remodeling inside of Meshmixer. If you look at this and evaluate it, we have some loops here. We have a plate and a bar. We can go into the Meshmix tool, and just drag a box into empty air to create a new box. And using the whole 90 degree rule, we can go above, drag the box to the corner, and resize it until we get a view right from above, resize it in this direction, drag it back over, see that it's a little bit too big in that direction. That looks pretty good there. Not good enough there. So this is a painstaking process. But one that you certainly can do if you really, really have to do it. So I'm just moving this up, and now we have a box that, if I took a little bit more time, I could get a little…

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