SOLVED: Why can't I pad this?

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earthcare
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SOLVED: Why can't I pad this?

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Hi all

I have a sketch (attached) with 10 components which according to Sketcher is fully constrained - the 10 components are linked by a separate backbone in another material. But when I go to pad, I only see one of the components - and padding doesn't seem to do anything to that!

I can go into the Part workbench and extrude it; however, this doesn't appear to export an STL file that I can 3D print, whereas pad does.

I've tried this several ways, and the results always seem to be the same.

Can someone point to what's going on?

Thanks, Edwin

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Re: Why can't I pad this?

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earthcare wrote: Thu Sep 06, 2018 1:17 am Can someone point to what's going on?
Part Design creates a single connected solid. Your sketch would result in ten unconnected solids.

I removed your sketch from the body container (and deleted everything but the sketch). Deleted the redundant constraints as suggested by sketcher (this may be version specific, 0.18 adds advanced recognition of redundant constraints)
I then used the Part WB Extrude (Part WB has no single solid restriction)
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the 10 components are linked by a separate backbone in another material
Not in this model, if you had one Part Design should work. See https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/PartDesign_ShapeBinder
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Re: Why can't I pad this?

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A part design body may only contain a single contiguous solid, your's produces ten!

You might consider using a part container with separate bodies within.

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Re: Why can't I pad this?

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Assuming this is not a technical object, but rather some sort of ART.. i would say, PART DESIGN is not the proper tool. Draft / Sketcher and Part will fit better as already posted by sgrogan
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Re: Why can't I pad this?

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earthcare wrote: Thu Sep 06, 2018 1:17 am

I can go into the Part workbench and extrude it; however, this doesn't appear to export an STL file that I can 3D print, whereas pad does.
Select the objects to export, go into MESH DESIGN Workbench and create mesh(ses) from Shapes. Then export them with right mouse click on the model tree, that should work for any 3D Object.

One of my videos shows a STL rework, there you can see the workflow.

here i created 3 shapes in draft, extruded in PART and converted to STL ( as you can see in the wireframes triangulated ) . After this, you can combine them to one mesh in mesh workbench before exporting, if that is wanted or needed.
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Re: Why can't I pad this?

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HarryGeier wrote: Thu Sep 06, 2018 6:07 am Select the objects to export, go into MESH DESIGN Workbench and create mesh(ses) from Shapes. Then export them with right mouse click on the model tree, that should work for any 3D Object.
Is there any advantage over the simpler way of exporting sgrogan's model directly?
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Re: Why can't I pad this?

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Well,
earthcare wrote he cannot save HIS PART extrusion based model. Sgrogan´s model is PART DESIGN based approach, which might work when saved as STL .
Back in 0.16 and early 0.17 times i had a lot of trouble with STL´s created in the direct saving way ( mostly non manifold ) , so i prefer the way through mesh Workbench anyway. In addition one can check, split, combine meshes with the MESH Workbench . You can create several STL´s from a model which would probably not print well due to the positions of the solids and re-arrange them in the slicer for better prints.

As usual.. there are several ways to do the same thing in FreeCAD.
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Re: Why can't I pad this?

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Harry, thanks for the info. Especially the fine tuning possibilities might be useful.
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Re: SOLVED: Why can't I pad this?

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Hi all

And thanks to sgrogan - I got it to work with your approach.
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