This one plugin has saved me a ton of time. You can then easily identify the problem area and zoom in to fix it. If there are any missing faces on that object, a red circle will appear around the area that needs repair. I set mine up so it activates when I press SHIFT + S. You might even want to create a custom keyboard shortcut for this tool. The cursor will turn white, and you just click on the group or component you’d like to check. Instead, you click on the “Tools” menu, and select “Solid Inspector” to activate it. One thing that’s nice about this plugin is that it doesn’t add any additional clutter to your toolbars.
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Also search for and install the library “TT_Lib”.
If you have Sketchup 2013, open up the extension warehouse and search for “Solid Inspector”. This plugin requires the installation of TT_Lib², a library of functions shared between different plugins by ThomThom. The Solid Inspector plugin was created by ThomThom, and is available in the Sketchup extension warehouse. The Solid Inspector quickly indicates where there are holes in your model, so you can manually fix them before exporting your model to be printed. That’s where the Solid Inspector comes in. If it’s a really tiny face, you can get frustrated pretty quickly trying to find it. Things can also get screwed up if we have extra faces or edges on the interior of our model. In other words, there is a face missing between some of the edges in our model. Despite our best efforts, there are many times when we unintentionally have a hole in our model that needs to be fixed. One of the requirements for printing out a 3D model is that it has to be completely solid, or “water tight”.
Solid Inspector Plugin NameĬhecks groups and components for missing faces, highlights problem areasĭownload Solid Inspector Install from extension warehouse Some of the plugins I recommend below are not available through the extension warehouse, and must be downloaded from the Sketchucation forum. The only problem is that they don’t have ALL of the plugins available.
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With Sketchup Make & Sketchup Pro 2013, they introduced the Sketchup extension warehouse which makes installing plugins much easier than before.
NOTE: Depending upon which version of Sketchup you have on your computer, there are different methods of installing plugins. These are the 3 plugins I can’t live without when modeling things for my printer.
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I recently built my own 3D printer and have been learning a lot about how to design printable models in Sketchup. Sketchup is a great tool for creating models for 3D printing.
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