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Old 14th November 2019, 02:51 AM   #1
Baenlynn
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Default "Unify Normals" Causing crash

I am working on a mesh for an involute gear I need to print, but things get a bit weird whenever I go to add in the third dimension. If I use the thicken function (right) the object turns into a complete mess, and if I extrude (left) the surfaces are oriented everywhichway. Using 'unify normals' on the object, (even when I duplicate the line and add the surfaces in myself) causes AC3D to crash. It does not crash when I unify normals on other objects within the file, or in other objects in new files. I even started over completely from scratch with a brand new file to rule out any orphaned vertices/surfaces/whatevers I could have missed.

If I have to do this the long way then I have to do this the long way, I just want to make sure that there's not something seriously wrong with this that's going to cause my printer to choke on its g-code when I go to print it. Advice welcome
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