Printing

2 components in Manufacturing › Printing.

Automatic Repair

Repairs the pieces into a single printable mesh: closes gaps, fixes normals and makes the result watertight (the Print Model). Rhino 8 or higher

Nickname: Automatic Repair · Tab: Manufacturing › Printing

Inputs

Name	Nickname	Type	Access	Default	Description
Enable	Enable	Boolean	item	false	Enable the repair (a long operation: Rhino stays busy while it computes)
Geometry	Geometry	Geometry	list	—	Solids, surfaces or meshes to repair into one mesh (gems are usually left out)
Precision	Precision	Number	item	d.Presicion	Repair precision in mm: smaller is more faithful and slower
Fill Holes	FillHoles	Boolean	item	d.FillHoles	Close the holes of the input before wrapping
Min Edge Length	MinEdge	Number	item	0	Meshing: minimum edge length (0 = the analysis defaults)
Max Edge Length	MaxEdge	Number	item	0	Meshing: maximum edge length (0 = the analysis defaults)

Outputs

Name	Nickname	Type	Access	Description
Mesh	Mesh	Mesh	item	The repaired, printable mesh
Closed	Closed	Boolean	item	True when the result is watertight
Shells	Shells	Integer	item	Number of disjoint shells in the result
Naked Edges	Naked	Integer	item	Number of naked edges left

Ring Resizer

Resizes a ring mesh to a run of inner diameters, with an optional identifier tag and sprue per size, laid in a row along Y

Nickname: Ring Resizer · Tab: Manufacturing › Printing

Inputs

Name	Nickname	Type	Access	Default	Description
Enable	Enable	Boolean	item	false	Enable the resizer (one boolean pipeline per size)
Ring	Ring	Mesh	item	—	The ring mesh to resize (a closed mesh)
From Diameter	From	Number	item	—	Inner diameter of the ring as it is (mm)
To Diameters	To	Number	list	—	Target inner diameters (mm), one ring each
Names (optional)	Names	Text	list	—	Labels for the sizes, parallel to To Diameters (default: the diameter)
Mode	Mode	Text	item	d.Mode.ToString().ToUpperInvariant()	UNIFORM scales the whole ring; VARIABLE keeps the top (the head) and stretches the shank
Angle	Angle	Number	item	d.Angle	VARIABLE: angle of the band kept untouched at the top (degrees)
Force Boolean	Boolean	Boolean	item	d.ForceBoolean	Union the ring, tag and sprue into one mesh
Spacing	Spacing	Number	item	d.Shank.RingDistance	Distance between consecutive rings along Y (0 = all in place)
Identifier	Id	Boolean	item	d.Identifier.Enable	Add an identifier tag with the size name to each ring
Reference	Ref	Text	item	d.Identifier.RingReference	Text written before the size name on the tag
Font Size	Font	Number	item	d.Identifier.FontSize	Tag font size
Tag Diameter	TagD	Number	item	d.Identifier.Diameter	Tag disc diameter
Tag Thickness	TagT	Number	item	d.Identifier.Thickness	Tag thickness
Tag Offset	TagOff	Number	item	d.Identifier.Offset	Tag offset from the ring
Tag Move Z	TagZ	Number	item	d.Identifier.MoveInZ	Vertical shift of the tag
Sprue	Sprue	Boolean	item	d.Sprue.Enable	Add a single sprue under each ring
Sprue Height	SprueH	Number	item	d.Sprue.Height	Sprue height
Sprue Top X	SprueTX	Number	item	d.Sprue.TopX	Sprue section at the ring, X
Sprue Top Y	SprueTY	Number	item	d.Sprue.TopY	Sprue section at the ring, Y
Sprue Bottom X	SprueBX	Number	item	d.Sprue.BottomX	Sprue section at the base, X
Sprue Bottom Y	SprueBY	Number	item	d.Sprue.BottomY	Sprue section at the base, Y
Sprue Inside Ring	SprueIn	Number	item	d.Sprue.InsideRing	How far the sprue enters the ring

Outputs

Name	Nickname	Type	Access	Description
Rings	Rings	Mesh	list	The resized rings, one per target diameter
Identifiers	Ids	Mesh	list	The identifier tags (when enabled)
Sprues	Sprues	Mesh	list	The sprues (when enabled)
Names	Names	Text	list	The size name of each ring