Hollow Out Any STL for 3D printing! Quick 3D Tutorial - Meshmixer

This is one part from my latest Skillshare class "Blender 3D - The Art of Sculpting". In this class, we create the whole model completely from scratch! We sketch, plan, model, sculpt, render and prepare for 3D printing! 🤯
All in Blender! Only the hollowing out is done in Meshmixer...and can be theoretically also done in Blender for some models!
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[@PhialoDesign]

Check out the whole sculpting course here: skl.sh/3KFogor (get 1 month free trial) Despite saying it in the video, Meshmixer is also available for Mac OS: meshmixer.en.softonic.com/mac

[@jesshavok1015]

Thank you kindly for this. I'm using Cura to render out my models, and couldn't figure out a way to hollow out my mask builds so they were wearable. This helped me greatly, as I was on the verge of giving up!

[@PhialoDesign]

Very happy that this helped you so much! Indeed, hollowing out is not as straightforward in many other 3d programs. Good luck with your masks, hope it all turns out better than expected!

[@CarlyMonster]

I used my Anycubic software to hollow out the item then saved and closed it then reopend it and sliced it. I was pretty proud of me 🤓 I'm going to try this software though! Looks great!

[@PhialoDesign]

Great tip and well done!

[@hungle-bq4yk]

I'm so grateful that your video helped me a lot. But meshmixer makes hollow objects only face inward, do you know how to make the surface face outward?

[@PhialoDesign]

I am glad it helped! Sorry, I am no expert in meshmixer. But maybe you could use Blender afterwards to scale the inward facing bigger than the original mesh, then flip the normals around afterwards to have the hollowed out part face outwards...

[@asen22056479]

thank you~

[@parisa_amraee_art9010]

❤❤very good

[@LectricLetus]

I just want to print a shell of my truck but everyone who scanned one included the internals. Cant hollow out the model.

[@PhialoDesign]

Try booling everything inside away with smaller cubes, in Blender...

[@zqxzr]

i wanna know how you did this since i have the same problem with my model im trynna hollow out to print a shell for my rc car

[@Eins.1]

When I plane cut after hollowing the walls got cut too. The walls are not closed anymore

[@PhialoDesign]

You might workaround this by exporting the STL from Meshmixer and then importing again in Blender and booling a cube from the lion. Maybe this will work better.

[@mastacor]

How do I hollow out to the outer thickness of a Anubis dog mask?

[@PhialoDesign]

Hard to answer from afar without more details. Feel free to book a 1-on-1 with me for such a specific question (cal.com/gesapickbrenner)

[@loquendero-vi5sp]

Hi! I really need to cut out the model? I just want to leave that way

[@PhialoDesign]

Hollowing out is for saving weight (= material), for example with metal this can be very useful. Of course, you don't have to hollow out the model for printing!