Blender SOLIDIFY MODIFIER Tutorial - Adding Thickness to Objects in Blender! 

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I am creating 3d models to insert into Flight Simulator. I like to do interiors of buildings eg. hangars and find it troublesome when faces are going the wrong direction and appear transparent. So interior walls need to face inwards and outer walls out, both with different materials. Solidify works well but I get problems after I create an arc, then turn it to mesh and extrude, then when I solidify the copy of slightly out of line.

Great video!

I am trying to 3d print a car model. I got a stl from a friend, but that is not a model ment for printing, it is imported from rfactor game. I tried to slice it and print but I failed because the walls were too thin. Now I am trying to divide the model into smaller parts to print separately and glue together. Main problem is you are too fast. I am reviewing key moments several times to guess what you pressed, say to get directions of normals... I do what you do and there are options missing... Perhaps I need to start from very beginning, not from this video...

​@@czajla hey. Any luck getting it to work? I'm getting cars from Assetto Corsa. The taking fusion 360 to separate parts. Then trying to print the body sections.

Glad it helped!

Thanks for watching!

No problem 👍

Thats for all modifiers not just solidify...

Thanks from the future.

Awesome! :)

Apply the modifiers. If you want to do this with multiple object, select all and right click. Choose Convert>to Mesh.

@@macnavi thank you 😁

Apply the modifier. You can find this under the triangle at the top in the modifier panel. If you want to do this with multiple object, select all and right click. Choose Convert>to Mesh.

Not 100% sure but I believe you'd have to apply the modifier then unwrap the object you'd created

:)

The boolean should move with the object that you've applied it to

Trying to do the same thing..any luck?

In the Solidify modifier click Apply. Then Edit the object as per normal.

@@michelledunn6712 Thank you! ^^

Make sure you've applied your rotation and scale to your model before trying to use the modifier

@@TheCGEssentials It was the scale indeed, thanks. I found out on my own at the same time reading more information about these basic scale and dimensions concepts. I have a hard time understanding why a solidify thickness in metric units does not apply to the object's XYZ dimensions, also in metric units, but on the scale of the object. Remembering that the scale is not the size of a cube but the size of a virtual box around the cube is confusing for such simple geometric volumes where scale and dimensions are identical (at first, before any transform). I model physical objects of specific dimensions, so I need to enter these dimensions every time, which messes up the scale that I need to re-apply every single time for the tools to work as expected. This is quite fastidious and frustrating, so I am probably not using the proper Blender workflow. I wish there was a way to lock the scale during modeling, instead of resetting it manually before every edit... Thankfully it's a simple project: I am building a vegetalized wall, with 26 cm cubes of light concrete, molding 4x4 cubes together as a 52 kg cinder block so there's only 31 blocks to lay out altogether on the foundations, a quick job. The cubes have a L12xH6 cm slot on top center for the plants to grow out, one slot every other cube on both the alley side and the garden side alternatively. Holes for drip watering too. I'll use the full wall render for the building permit.

Justin does show this. Change to wireframe mode and you’ll see that your base object is within the expanded object. Change the direction of the modifier, as Justin shows you how to do.