Calculating dimentions of Blender meshes...

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I’m doing a digital reconstruction of a historical site. Part of this involves reconstructing earthen vessels found at the site. Also, one of the main goals of this reconstruction is to create a model that is accurate enough for specialists to derive useful measurements, such as the volume of said earthen vessels.

Other the writing a script, can y’all think of a way to calculate the interior volume of such a mesh? Even if it’s in Blender units, that’s cool, I can do the conversion pretty easy. I just can’t think of a good way to calculate that. The fluid sim keeps coming to mind (filling the mesh with water), but that’s probably a bad direction :wink: I fi model the interior, can I calculate the volume of that?

Thanks guys,
hurleyman

in 2.49 i got a script that can calculate a closed volume with good precision
but not yet in 2.5

so do you have a closed volume and manifold?

happy 2.5