Mesh Repair - Skill Builder

In this Skill Builder, Aaron talks to us about Mesh repair in SketchUp (aka, what to do when there's a hole in your object that you need to repair).
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[@bobd.]

I have run into these issues and now I have some ideas for fixing them that I know will work better than what I have been doing. Thanks Aaron.

[@rossgebert9422]

Thanks Aaron, another great Skill Builder, particularly when you learn something, thanks.

[@CalgaryBen]

Would love to see this applied to some 3D-printable models! Import an .STL file with some intricate details, and repair all the holes. 3D models are a perfect candidate for needing to do this -- they're small, often have many faces to form curves, and sometimes have lots of unintended perforations, as far as SketchUp is concerned.

[@ozcanison]

Sometimes when repairing geometry like that though, you can end up with muiltiple faces within the same set of vertices. You have to usually delete the face 2 or 3 times.

[@ilgiztamindarov952]

In this case, "Solid Inspector" helps a lot!
Thanks Tom Tom for this! ;)

[@dchipcat]

I'm having a hell of a time trying to repair 3D terrain. It would be wonderful to see a repair mesh video that talks about higher complexity meshes as one might see in an archetectural model.

[@marciolangeani9992]

Thanks for making my life much easier!

[@keggyification]

Stitching Yay! Thanks Aaron 😆

[@mohammadarifrahman9376]

Classic & awesome. Just solid piece of cake DUDE-----!? God blessed.

[@HansJPfisterer]

Thanks that helped a lot again!

[@allanjgray1]

Great to know how to fix this one.

[@kacperbryniarski8009]

Thanks so much for this video;)

[@johnjlopez]

I, also, find it cathartic to manually repair broken geometry (when I t works) ;)

[@AaronMakingStuff]

Oh, yes… I hum to myself and feel very relaxed while stitching up a broken mesh

[@davidwaidelich5358]

great video

[@Frazer20]

I've noticed faces missing if i import a 3rd party model. something I heard, cant remember where though, is to import it in a much larger scale, like metres instead of mm which usually fills in the missing faces and then scale it back down with tape measure tool.

[@falkmagerkurth2264]

I love the shirt :)

[@perkrog8310]

Could it be an idea to use solid tool to find the mesh in these cases? You have to know there are faults before you can repair them. :-)

[@SketchUp]

Solid Tools work by combining or cutting solids from each other. It does not include any mesh repair functionality.

[@KentNelson]

@@SketchUp No, but it DOES show where the hole is.

[@perkrog8310]

@@SketchUp Correct, but I assume that Solid Tools will show 'mesh' errors?

[@mc.drawing6255]

😊

[@kaiseredward]

extensions will do 🤪🤪

[@MatteoManzi]

Which ones?