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Fill Hole

meshi

on: March 03, 2015, 03:00:07 PM

Newbie

Posts: 6

Hi,
I have a Scan of a person. On one shoe there is a whole as you can see on the picture. Is there
an easy way to fill this whole? I already tried to make a solid but it didn't help.

Thanks.
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MagWeb
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Posts: 1059

Re: Fill Hole

Reply #1 on: March 03, 2015, 03:59:25 PM

Seems there is an inner shell? Sorry, your image is pretty small...

If so:
Use SELECT to manually select a loop of around the hole.
Hit X to discard those faces.
If I'm right ANALYSIS/Inspector should detect two holes now (blue sphere handles).
Click AutoRepairAll
That should fix your hole. Note: The inner shell is still there. To see it you might drag the
Transparency SHADER (right of the world shader) onto your scan.
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meshi
Newbie

Posts: 6

Re: Fill Hole

Reply #2 on: March 04, 2015, 04:53:39 AM

Here is a bigger image where I have selected a loop.

http://img4.fotos-hochladen.net/uploads/bildschirmfotopko8gctl6e.png
If i hit x the loop disappears and nothing happened. I have uploaded the file. Maybe it helps if you
can open it yourself.
person.stl
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tikey
Newbie

Posts: 25

Re: Fill Hole

Reply #3 on: March 04, 2015, 05:47:10 AM

You might have to do a remesh of the foot to get the selection right.
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MagWeb
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Re: Fill Hole

Reply #4 on: March 04, 2015, 05:48:34 AM

The hole isn't actually a hole.

Your mesh owns many second skins (means this scan was done using a Primesense device e.g.
Kinect)

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Selecting a loop as suggested above doesn't work quite well for you already cut a plane at the
sole with is pretty low resolution.
So as tikey said:
Do SELECT, paint some selection and run Modify/SelectAll;
With all being selected run Edit/Remesh (default settings might be enough) - Accept
Now you should be able to draw a selection loop around the sole hole. Discard the selected loop;
Run ANALYSIS/Inspector/RepairAll. This closes the hole(s)
BUT there are still plenty of inner surfaces which will cause trouble in further processing or 3D
printing (se image below)
To select and remove such surfaces:
Do SELECT, paint some selection.
Run Modify/SelectVisible (this selects the first surface towards the virtual cam)
Rotate your scan a bit;
With SHIFT pressed run Modify/SelectVisible again (SHIFT adds the new result to the previous)
- Repeat this step until your surface is orange all over viewed from all directions (if you missed
tiny surfaces you might manually add them using a small brush size)
Invert the selection running Modify/Invert (now your inner regions are selected. You see them
using the transparency SHADER)
Erase those areas hitting X on your keyboard.
Finally run Analysis/Inspector again to Repair all the new created holes and to remove small
pieces by running RepairAll.
Your mesh should be fixed now.

SecondSkin.jpg (122.79 kB, 618x1173 - viewed 353 times.)

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meshi
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Posts: 6

Re: Fill Hole

Reply #5 on: March 05, 2015, 02:38:47 AM

First of all thanks for your detailed answer!

I selected all and did the remesh. Then I tried to draw the selection loop around the sole hole.
But if I do so I don't get the possibility to discard it. It looks like this now:
http://img4.fotos-hochladen.net/uploads/bildschirmfotopko8gctl6e.png
(this is the same picture as I already posted above; remesh is not done yet but just to show my
problem with the loop)
What do I do wrong?
You were right this is a scan made with the structure sensor. Also thanks for your second advise
how to delete the inner surfaces. I didn't know about this possibility either but it works quite well!
And I actually want to print the figure so this makes printing much easier!
I don't know why the sole hole is cuted with such a low resolution. I already recognized it, too. It
is cutted with Netfabb pro.
Last Edit: March 05, 2015, 02:40:45 AM by meshi

MagWeb
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Re: Fill Hole

Reply #6 on: March 05, 2015, 03:13:49 AM

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After remeshing:
Don't use the Lasso selection. Use the Brush instead for this (the toggle switch at top of the
submenu)

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If you click on ShowBoundaries in View (Menu bar) there should be two blue lines (an inner and
outer) around the erased area.
If yes, all is fine. Leave SELECT mode now.
Go to ANALYSIS/Inspector and run Inspector to close those boundaries.
Yes NetFab cuts with a minimal InFill. Maybe it's better to use Meshmixer's PlaneCut (in EDIT) if
you have to do further editing.
Last Edit: March 05, 2015, 03:17:17 AM by MagWeb

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meshi
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Posts: 6

Re: Fill Hole

Reply #7 on: March 05, 2015, 05:20:31 AM

I got it =). Thanks. The sole is closed in meshmixer. I exported it as an stl file and imported it in
Simplify3d.
Unfortunately, after generating the g-code the whole is still there.
http://img4.fotos-hochladen.net/uploads/bildschirmfotorpkoblv2ya.png
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tikey
Newbie

Posts: 25

Re: Fill Hole

Reply #8 on: March 05, 2015, 05:45:13 AM

When doing the analysis inspector just close the boundary of the sole and then do what Magweb
told you in his previous post about selecting the visible sides and erasing.
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meshi
Newbie

Posts: 6

Re: Fill Hole

Reply #9 on: March 05, 2015, 06:20:52 AM

For any reasons it didn't work the first time. Did the steps again and it worked well! Thanks for all
your support!
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Bardon
Newbie

Posts: 4

Re: Fill Hole

Reply #10 on: March 06, 2015, 09:11:39 PM

Hi all, new user here so please forgive any newbie mistakes/misunderstandings!

I've got a similar situation and the same fix has covered the hole nicely. However, what I now
need to do is thicken the filled section - the reason I need to fill this is because it's part of a very
irregular-shaped object being made into a mask and has to be split into multiple pieces in order
to fit into my print space. This hasn't been a problem except for this section leaving a big gap
and therefore weakening the mask's overall strength.
So if anyone can tell me how to thicken that newly filled area I'd be eternally grateful! I tried
selecting it then using "extrude" but the area goes red & nothing happens when I manipulate the
extrude distance slider.
I'm probably missing something obvious!
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MagWeb
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Re: Fill Hole

Reply #11 on: March 07, 2015, 03:22:18 PM

Could you post some image of what you're trying? (You can upload an attachment clicking on
AdditionalOptions on the PostReply form)
Maybe filling the hole constructed some mesh errors? Maybe there are some self intersections...
Did you try to Remesh the inflill? Does Inspector show some errors?
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I'm just a user as you are. Being no Autodesk employee: I don't know where this road will lead to, nor will I claim
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Bardon

Re: Fill Hole

Newbie

Reply #12 on: March 07, 2015, 07:18:47 PM

Sure - here's the before & after so you can hopefully make sense of what I mean.
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The "Hole to fill" picture is before doing any manipulation - just a z-axis slice. Given my printer
size I have to slice it by three on both the X & Y axis - it's a big print!
The "Filled Hole" shows the result I got. It covers the area well, I just need to extrude it
downwards for about 5mm to strengthen the part.
Edit: Sorry, didn't answer all your questions! The Inspector doesn't show any errors and I hadn't
tried to remesh the infill but it gets some red sections. Likely that's the cause of my problem?
Thanks for helping!

Hole to fill.JPG (203.88 kB, 1182x682 - viewed 418 times.)

Filled hole.JPG (338.79 kB, 1307x863 - viewed 439 times.)

Last Edit: March 07, 2015, 07:20:24 PM by Bardon

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Re: Fill Hole

Reply #13 on: March 08, 2015, 06:01:46 AM

I see...
Basically it should be easier if you'd do cutting before hollowing the object to pieces and run
Hollow on each piece separately.

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If that's not possible:

Try do run Remesh on the state shown in the first image.
Now it should be possible to shrink the selection using the "<" key one time.
Discard that selection.
Run the Inspector to fill the hole.
Instead of extruding the outer shell I would modify the inner one. To get the inner shell separated
you've to do the upper procedure on all the holes (which actually connect the inner with the outer
shell).
Now you should be able to isolate the inner shell by running SeparateShells.
Hide the outer shell and make the inner one active
Select all and run Edit/FlipNormals
Now Run PlaneCut on the inner shell with the desired thickness ( you might turn on "S" (=snap)
on the plane's transform widget).
To convert the result back to be an inner shell you've to flip via SelectAll and run
Edit/FlipNormals.
Show the outer shell, combine both.
Hope the fixes your problem.
(BTW: How big will your final print be?)

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Bardon
Newbie

Posts: 4

Re: Fill Hole

Reply #14 on: March 09, 2015, 01:49:51 AM

The cut-then-hollow worked perfectly - thanks so much!

As for your last question, the final mask will be 37cmx40cmx49cm. Here's the full image to show
you how it's going to look. If people are interested I'll put up a photo when the whole thing is
done & painted - maybe even one with the rest of the costume.

Full mask.JPG (79.47 kB, 558x730 - viewed 253 times.)

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