integrating solids from COS

[2ms1]

I'm pretty new to using Style and have been trying to make things out of
surface and then combine them with existing solids with Solidify.

The things is, I'm not certain sometimes that I'm "truly" making one solid
when I do.

For example, in the pic shown below, the bottom piece was a solid in the
first place. Then I drew up the domey thing in Style using a COS as the
bottom "chain" opposite the top chain loop seen on top, with a 2nd
direction chain being the line you see running between the two. Then I
used Solify to convert the dome from surface to solid.

But the thing is I'm not certain the two are now truly one solid as I would
like. I'm wondering if, for example, I were to save the file as an STL, the
triangles would overlap the edges of each feature, or would it treat them
as if there's an infinitely thing seam between the two (so the triangles
ending at the edges of each feature rather than being created as if it was
one big solid.

Could someone tell me whether or not I am, in fact, creating true single
solids when I do things like the object shown in pic below?

 

[design-engine]

you sketched a dome on the solid block in ISDX. Great. Now solidify the thing just like you would with a regular surface. Next hide the ISDX feature with a HIDE or a with a layer. The geometry should be all white. If it is not we missed one of the three steps.

One more thing. If you or any reader are not used to using surface as well as ISDX which are surfaces as well... turn off the shade and do you see purple. Thats the surface. For a good test: create a cross section down the middle. A solid will show cross hatches but a closed surface or select set of merged surface will not.
Edited by: design-engine