Solid or shelled print confusion

[aeviaanah]

This looks great. Do you own a bar?

What ended up happening with netfabb? Did it make it solid or shelled?

Thanks man! I'm really not sure what netfabb did. I ended up ditching sketchup and going to Inventor and redrafting. I now have a solid object which is what I think the slic3r needs.

I dont have a bar but I do have a 4 tap kegerator. I like to brew my own beer.

[ShaneH]

(Better late than never)...

I use sketchup for the modelling, with the sketchy physics plugin for checking clearances and motion problems, export to stl (stl export plugin), use netFabb Basic to auto-fix any holes and make any changes to orientation then re-export it back over the original stl, then chuck it through slic3r..etc.
Sketchup has some very nice plugins, including one I found recently called 'bender' for bending shapes around paths. Ever wanted to create a really nice nut and bolt?..get this plugin to bend a thread profile shape around a helix. Too easy.