# Re-edit an existing STL file from Thingsverse

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/re-edit-an-existing-stl-file-from-thingsverse/7229>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [April 17, 2020, 6:25pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/re-edit-an-existing-stl-file-from-thingsverse/7229 "2020-04-17T18:25:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Matt\_the-Rathje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/49beb7/32.png) [@Matt\_the-Rathje](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Matt_the-Rathje)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 10:35am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/re-edit-an-existing-stl-file-from-thingsverse/7229/13 "2022-11-20T10:35:59Z")

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Hey Peter,  
indeed the geometry consists of surface-bodies that are not closed - No Solid, no fun! 😉  
Working with 3D-scanned data is a hard task and I checked the data and if i could close the gaps easily for you, so you’ll have a solid Body, but that would require at least some hours of surface-modelling, because of the geometry being already faulty:  
 ![2022-11-20 11_05_30-SOLIDWORKS 2019 SP5.0 - Oculus Quest 2 RH manual surface no buttons Refined _](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/d/3/d3d57251660c81c672a698e83199386fcb991a0c.png) Here you see the zebra on the surface and the ZigZag on the edge shows inconsistancies that will make it hard to get to a solid.  
I could thicken the surface-bodies by 0,01mm (more wallthickness was not possible) so now you should be able to edit them in Shapr now (in the boundries of the math behind solid-modelling).  
[Oculus Quest 2 RH manual surface no buttons Refined.shapr](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/uploads/short-url/2DM8eIJYaENNBbomE51dwQvyJzS.shapr) (1.3 MB)

> [@Peter\_b](#):
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> Cant imagine this cant be solved within Shapr itself converting the sheet to a body when importing.

Jeah, sure - Shapr would just have to recreate some faces that are not even there, check for the design-intend, solve the inconsistancies,  
make some decisions about this and that…  
All jokes apart: No CAD-Program in the world can do what you wish for automatically - at least not with a satisfying result.  
Shit in = shit out. 😉  
HTH  
Cheers Matt

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