Cleanup: A Blender Workflow Example

[@funwithmadness]

Watching people problem solve is often much more useful than just following along with the typical "how-to" tutorial. Good work! Thanks.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

A few people had mentioned that so I thought this could be a helpful video 👍🏻😁 Great to have that confirmed.

[@WallyMahar]

This is the kind of stuff 3-D printers who just have dont have a big knowledge of blender but really need to get things done, need. Thank you.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

😁 Cheers. Always happy to be able to pass along some knowledge/tips and I'm glad it's helpful

[@BryanKolb]

I picked up Mesh Machine on sale yesterday and wow is it a HUGE time saver.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

It's such a good addon. It does things that should take maybe an hour (or are impossible) in seconds.

[@katydidonline]

What a great solution! That tip to get rid of the bottom vertices so you just have to deal with the top alone is a huge tip for me. Thank you!

[@ArtisansofVaul]

😁 Glad it's got some helpful tips. Thanks so much for watching and commenting.

[@JohnFlower-NZ]

I appreciated seeing this as well. Prior to seeing this my approach had been to box select the bottom vertices and scale to 0 on the relevant axis. My approach works, but it's difficult to be accurate because the model must be fully on screen.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@@JohnFlower-NZ 😁 Glad I could give some ideas for alternatives 👍

[@jamaicster]

YEES! Problems! That's most time consuming issues when dealing with f.e. editing already modeled and imported STLs =))))) Nice. I've done a lot of that sort of cleaning already =)

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Yep, always an annoyance!

[@emmamarx9284]

Fantastic, gonna be working on a two part mold for a rather complex sculpt here soon so this info will def come in handy! As always thanks for the lesson! ❤

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Always great to hear the videos are helping. Thanks so much for taking the time to comment on so many videos Emma.

[@mind_of_a_darkhorse]

Great tutorial as always!

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Cheers Darkhorse. And as always thanks so much for watching and commentinf

[@matty7788]

Does anyone know why hardops Boolean hotkeys "CRTL numberpad Minus" in object mod are not working?

[@ArtisansofVaul]

That's very odd. Was it working before? If it was have you installed anything that could have "hijacked" that keyless shortcut?

[@matty7788]

@@ArtisansofVaul I dont know Ive tried testing it by mapping it to "shift Minus" but still nothing. None of the other booleon keys work either

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@@matty7788 Have you got the current version of Blender and the current version of Hard Ops? I've never heard of that messing up...

[@matty7788]

@@ArtisansofVaul Yeah 4.1 on Blender and 9.88.3 with Hard ops. Did remove and reinstall but still nothing 🙃. Thank you for replying by the way

[@NotSoMuchFrankly]

Is Numlock off on the keyboard?

[@DarthMustaffar]

Thanks for the knowledge. Can you show how to make an injection mold like miniatures? like injection molds of tanks and airplanes. Where the thickness of the entire part is 1-2 mm.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

I have made molds before but only for resin. Plastic injection would be a bit beyond my knowledge set (though it would be something I'd love to learn).

[@darrennew8211]

When boolean is a tool, everything is done with booleans. :-) "Verts not aligned? Chop them off!"

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Haha. Yeah, normally works really well.

[@ابوالفضلسلیمانی-و5ل]

Nice 👍❤

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Cheers 😁

[@eitantal726]

9:49 oops missed one

[@eitantal726]

Apparently there were others that were invisible. Not only are you looking for the smallest yellow, z-fighting can hide it, sometimes completely

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Yeah, exactly. I like to catch the major ones but I think this is a good show of the limitations of doing it visually and the limits of the 3D print check.

[@eitantal726]

@@ArtisansofVaul It's unfortunate that a solution for this isn't automated. would be nice if there was an option for blender to automatically merge vertices that will overlap like that

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@@eitantal726 It does have some limited options when you click the make manifold option but I have found it doesn't work perfectly.