Monthly 3D Printing and 3D Design Webinar Replay - September 2017

[@DerTheoretiker]

Thanks for the video. Do you know, is there a function in meshmixer to make an infill? I have a STL fill that I would like to fill. The hole is to small to print it.

[@nickkloski3877]

Yes indeed! The Edit --> Make Pattern command will do that.

[@DerTheoretiker]

@@nickkloski3877 thanks for the tip. It's not that easy, but it works.

[@HoneyPoint3D]

@@DerTheoretiker Creating infill in your slicer is a better option...in some slicers you can even hollow then export the infill as its own 3d model.

[@SergioJimenez-oh9yy]

Hello. First i want to congratulations for share your knowledge. I'm a beginner using meshmixer and your videos help me a lot. I have a dude and i don't find the solution. If you know it, I would be very grateful for you answer. If i use select in a object and i draw a circle ( the circle is orange but inside and outside are grey). Are there any option to order that all surface is inside {gray} include in the selection? . Thank for your very much for your helo

[@HoneyPoint3D]

Sure....if you select something and hit "e" that will expand the selection to everything that is connected to that selection. If you hit the "i" key, that will invert the selection....meaning that everything that was selected will not be, and everything that was not selected will be. If you are talking about selecting everything inside of the circle you just drew on the model there is no way to directly do that. The only way I would do that (without selecting the inner part of the circle by hand) would be to draw the circle, "create facegroup", then double click on the inner part of the circle, and create a facegroup there, then doubleclick on both facegroups and create facegroup again, making one large facegroup.

[@SergioJimenez-oh9yy]

@@HoneyPoint3D thank you very much for your answer. I'm sure it will work well your proposal. I hadn't thought about working with face groups. When i will arrive at home, i will try and i will anser if it will woeks well. I'm out on holidays, sorry. You are very generous for take your time on my and your knowledge. Thank you very much.

[@SergioJimenez-oh9yy]

I have already came back from my little holidays and I have already tried the solution that you proposed to work with facegrups. Congratulations. It has worked perfectly for me. Tell you that at the begining the object was a surface that I transformed into a solid. Working with facegroups works perfectly for me when the object is still a surface. When it is a solid, no. But nothing happens. I am happy with the solution you proposed. Thank you very much from the heart. Thank you