bobcoyle Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 I need to split an object into part to print on a 3d printer. Can I do this in Mesh Magic? I can find no tutorials and nothing on YouTube to explain anything about Mesh Magic. Please advise. The file I have is too big to print on any printer I have access to so I need to do it in parts. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nik_2213 Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 Hi ! Did you manage to find a solution ? I'm stripping lots of 'ornamentation' from a CTG sewer model to make the base modular. Upside, MM's UI is nice, mostly intuitive. 🙂 Downside, I could not find any way for MM to select any chunk of detailed pipes, greebles etc except one triangle or face at a time. 🙁 There seems no tool for 'lassooing' stuff that's in plain sight. I fumbled my way to Boolean subtraction, which needs much better work-flow explanation. When I got that the right way around, MM went away to rebuild the model's tree, was still working when I shrugged and stopped it. Then I persuaded MM to split my mega-object to components. That yielded ~200+ parts, down to nuts, bolts and sewer-rusty washers. Big stuff was easily deleted. Small stuff could be seen but, even zoomed, proved very hard to select. Again, need that 'lassoo'. I thought of using a cube and Boolean to blat a bunch, but you must select the parts to merge etc. And if I could easily select them, I wouldn't be trying this work-around... Also, there's no list of stuff. Being able to click on a component in list, see it high-lighted on screen, then hitting delete, add to selection or whatever would solve much... So, will your model split to components of manageable size ? Even if you must do it in stages, deleting all but a tranche then re-group those, rinse and repeat, you've a possible route to modules that will fit your printer... N Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakubX Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 Split Objects allows you to separate an object in to separate objects where each object contains just a single separate mesh. The rest of the manual is found here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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