MeshToSolid

The installer that ran when you downloaded this app/plug-in from the Autodesk App Store will start installing the app/plug-in. OR, simply double-click the downloaded installer to install the app/plugin. You may need to restart the Autodesk product to activate the app/plug-in. To uninstall this plug-in, exit the Autodesk product if you are currently running it, simply rerun the installer, and select the "Uninstall" button. OR, click Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features (Windows 7/8.1/10/11) and uninstall as you would any other application from your system.

Setting up

To configure the program, open the AVC Settings Palette using the AVСOptions command and select the Mesh To Solid tab.

• Acceptable mesh complexity - The number of polygons in the mesh, more than the mesh will not be processed in AVC commands. The setting works in the MeshToSilid, MeshExplode, and Flat commands. Too complex meshes will take hours to process, and the solids obtained from them are not suitable for further work. You can assign 0 so that all meshes are processed (and kill AutoCAD). Remember that you are working in a solid modeling program and it cannot handle the crazy meshes from the Internet and from 3DS Max.

• Saving Face Materials - Find polygons on the mesh with your own color or material and try to assign these materials to solid faces. Finding matches between mesh polygons and solid faces is a very complex and time-consuming procedure. Therefore, enable this option only if you actually assign colors and materials to some polygons.

Optimize solids - Glue mesh polygons into one solid plane to simplify the solid structure. Without optimization, the NC Preparation program will not be able to correctly construct the contours of the part for CNC. But by default, the option is disabled, because when optimization is enabled, AutoCAD often refuses to convert the mesh to solid. And there have been cases of AutoCAD crashing fatally.