Stitching meshes together using Meshmixer - 3D Printing 101

[@brandonterry1517]

Your Meshmixer tutorials are the best, man. Keep 'em coming.

[@MakersMuse]

+Brandon Terry Thanks dude!

[@chramesly]

At 3:40, upon learning to Deform + Transform, I finally felt like a creator. Only got the 3D printer last week, sure, but I finally feel like I'm dipping my toes in. Thanks!

[@johaneggink]

Cheers for the Netfabb tip! Works like a charm

[@dann3550]

I think you'll have already guessed I prefer videos that demonstrate, teach, explain etc. Goo job sir.

[@spikekent]

Another fantastic tutorial on Meshmixer, thanks Angus. Hope your back to full health real soon. Great idea on the vibrometer and decibel meter etc.

[@johnshaw7107]

I really appreciate this type of video. It helps expand the skills we all need to really make good use of 3D printing.

[@CaptainCryoWind]

Hey man! This was excellent! Exactly what I was looking for, plus I learned many more helpful techniques that were ancillary to the main concept. Much obliged!

[@paulapiper65]

Thanks Angus! This is exactly the info I've been looking for.

[@Robothut]

Yes more information like this would be great. Good Job !

[@CJPrinting]

"I apologize for the lack of content recently."... It has only been two days. Angus, you are a very devoted KZbinr. Thanks for making awesome videos!

[@aPyroDesign]

I think this is a great video. This is an extremely common issue. I still have trouble stitching models together and I kinda know what I'm doing ha-ha. Just starting to be get into mesh mixer too. Joel tells me your the expert :)

[@thebeststooge]

+A Pyro Design He is as he can dance around this program while the rest of us are still trying to find the light switch, lol.

[@lcalbero]

Awesome ! I am studying meshmixer now and your videos are quite helpfull ! (a ton to be honest !)

[@MrTaz6552]

Def brilliant video. more like that and hope you are better soon.

[@IshamPadron]

Great video and it's nice to know what mesh mixer can offer. The way I would do it since it's not organic is, i would import the model is lightwave or any 3d modeling program and subdivide the area enough so that i can weld the verts. that will give you a cleaner model in many ways and will make slicing a lot easier.

[@Viewerx]

Hey, thats really a good sharing of knowledge on the provided free software we can grab. I'm a Magics user so i understand the complexities of fixing a shell. anyhow! keep up the great work.

[@jockspice]

Excellent stuff, Angus. These little tips make the difference between good and great. Thank you!

[@TOGxFTW]

wow great info video. need more. thanks

[@lparigi34]

WoW!!! That was helpful

[@thebeststooge]

I hope you feel better soon. I do have a question for you and that is which enclosed printer would you suggest to purchase? Since my old Prusa I3's bed will never work right unless I spend 250 USD, or more, for a shop to work on a MIC6 bed (priced from 3 sources so far) I might as well toss this print in the garbage and buy one I know the bed will come flat and I can print on it. I have been looking around but I am completely turned off by the manufacturers going to a MK10 style hotend which will not do anything over 250c since the PTFE tube goes all the way to the orifice of the nozzle which is nuts. Any suggestions since you have played around with a bunch of them?

[@carismadesigns]

dude i really love your videos . i have a q. if i wanna make a Ziczac o snake shame figure? any tips? thank you

[@darrenanton2898]

Yes more videos like this so cool!!

[@ahmedbarakat8498]

Dear Maker Muse I simulated a surgery in the chin and imported the 3D model as stl file and I also imported bone plate. Can I adapt the plate to the surface of the mandible?

[@bialyabnormal]

Brilliant video! Thanks.

[@UnlikelyCreators]

My friend needs this video so bad, but every time I've showed one of your videos to him he can't get his mind off how much you look like Daryl from the walking dead. lol

[@billyt662]

so with mesh mixer you can seperate shells to remove an item but then mesh mixer will not let you save it again without a lot of messing about correct? i downloaded a model and it had its own supports but when you remove the supports they will damage the model as you cannot access the connection point

[@LordDeShadow]

I have a gauntlet that I want to print. I need to split it in many parts but I have an issue... Between the inside and outside wall its hollow and I want it to be filled so its stronger. How can I do that? When I cut it the remesh fill it all even in the middle where my arm is supposed to go. I can send the file if needed cause its kinda hard to explain. Would really like to learn how to do this. Thanks!

[@BlackBeastWorkshop]

I'm trying to combine different models to make something new, how do I fix gaps when I try combing the stls?

[@andrewsartscalemodels]

Thanks again mate. That was driving me mad!!!

[@SuperTommy117]

In meshmixer how do you select multiple shells to combine them? Every time I click on one it highlights the next one but unhighlights the other

[@hickvilella]

Hey man I just noticed that netfabb doesn't exist anymore as it got sorta like blended into fusion 360, is there any other way to upload projects to the cloud so the both shells can become a single solid one? I'm just starting and trying to get my head around fixing my 3D print but it has been quite hard :c

[@HarleyAssi]

DAmn.. I so envy you for living in an area wher rainbow lorikeets live freele. Had to google them and they are indeed gorgeous!! Btw: Cheers for the video, it just saved my day.

[@kangthecreator5369]

Nice tutorial

[@seanmorrison1331]

great tutorials. I do have an issue that I cannot resolve. my project has 2 layers. When I select to cut out the outer layer, it cuts, but leaves the inner layer. How can I separate both layers at the same time?

[@rodsnyder6020]

Awesome! Thanks!

[@ChannelHTS]

when I separate shells it says their is 5 so I hide the main 2 shells and the other 3 aren't visible

[@DOMEOLRI94]

you are amazing bro!!!!

[@iwannaratrod]

Great tutorial. This will help me on a few video game conversions. I use Netfabb cloud a lot. It has caught many errors Basic misses. Can I suggest one for the future? How about converting Pepakura to 3D print. I have been having issues getting it done cleanly. Cheers!

[@Mickice]

I was just using MeshMixer! Was editing a dodgy Lina Inverse thingyverse model :P

[@bigboy6969100]

Meshmixer look hard to use do you any files I can try to use it to practice on it nice videos

[@gilangad92]

Hello my name is Gilang, i have problem with repair mesh in cranium bone that from CT Scan. It has a lot of holes and make it difficult to print in 3D print. Do you have a way to fix the lot of holes in bone in meshmixer ? Thank you

[@ruitfsilva]

Great video, thanks :)

[@ahmedbarakat8498]

I added a picture bit I think it does not show. How can I attach a picture to the comment. Sorry for my ignorance, I copied the picture and pasted it but it does not show

[@SquarePupilIndustr]

beautiful

[@john-paulhopman318]

Very helpful, thanks. Could you now go back and remove triangles to clean up the surface? Is this something that could also be done in Fusion360?

[@bigboy6969100]

Hi am still learning on Meshmixer and it say print on the bottom and it on a makerbot replicator 2 platform what is that all about can I slice with Meshmixer if so how

[@MakersMuse]

+mike mun No, meshmixer can't be used to slice but it can send files to some programs for slicing. For your replicator 2 you're pretty much stuck with makerbot or Simplify 3D as far as I know.

[@bigboy6969100]

+Maker's Muse and another question in thingivers there a lot of broken models the one I want to fix is robocop 2 Cain it looks like hell to fix can you fix that

[@bigboy6969100]

+Maker's Muse can you fix this and make a video www.thingiverse.com/thing:11843

[@MakersMuse]

I would follow one of my fallout repair tutorials, it should be about the same process unless it's seriously broken.

[@bigboy6969100]

+Maker's Muse it's really bad I just post a link www.thingiverse.com/thing:11843

[@ChannelHTS]

awesome glad u did this vid helped me sort a gun now

[@jeevesme]

@Makers Muse Since you have Simplify3D, you can also import each of the components separately and combine them by manually placing them together. When you slice it, it will slice them as one object. This is handy for simple stuff like this.

[@Kridcha]

If you have two or more shell and you slice with Simpifly3D, try menu Mesh > Separate connected surfaces before click "Prepare to Print!" button. I think it's a bug of Simpifly3D that can't slice intersect body of model correctly.

[@MakersMuse]

+กริชชา อัชฌาบริรักษ์ Wow that IS a bug! I tested it and it worked. It's still good practice to combine shells though because other slicers like the ones for the UP! Don't have this ability. Cheers!

[@luizjsilva33]

Nice man! Saved me some time in meshmixer and the headache! Thank you

[@strave_vane]

doesnt change colors.. and distorts the size of the entire shell.. did it step by step about 10 times... not sure what im doing wrong...

[@the-xack]

Hehe learned something new ;) Til now i usually used the "Make Solid" funktion of Meshmixer for that I think... Get well soon

[@пашазайцев-й2я]

How to stitch both w/o changing their size?

[@TomsBackyardWorkshop]

I spent almost an entire day trying to figure this out. I doesn't help that my computer is slow. My computer is still trying to do the boolean operation but it looks like its working much better. Only 2 more pairs of combines to do.

[@TomsBackyardWorkshop]

I got a fatal error when clicked to accept the combine. Downloading netfab now.

[@OldCurmudgeon3DP]

Been trying to repair the UBO on thingiverse. It has a razor-thin "cut" in the STL on the bottle cap end that compromises strength. It's being a real snot of a file so far.

[@Roompje0]

I have a couple models from the game Rocket League and I'm trying to make them printable, I'll try this method of the face groups and I'll wait for the next tutorial. if I still can't fix it, would you mind if send you some models I'm having issues with? looking forward to some new stuff! specially the Trinus :)

[@ChannelHTS]

still useful man

[@heatherszeder1839]

Anyone know of a Meshmixer editor for hire? I have a 3D business and am looking for someone that can edit scans of people in Meshmixer for print. Thanks!

[@3D_Printing]

0:05 hope it was not be breathing 3D printer fumes, take care

[@smokeydops]

This is something that would be really easy to do in Blender, actually. Limited dissolve to switch to N-gons for easier selection, select the faces, extrude or translate into the gun body, then select the barrel and gas port regions and the face of the gun, then self-intersect (knife, for Blender should never be used for booleans if you can avoid it). Then its just cleanup by deleting the non-manifold faces left inside the gun. Now its manifold and a single continuous piece.

[@stshstsh07]

+smokeydops people who dont typically model their own prints shy away from blender.

[@smokeydops]

true

[@Rhen5656]

For anyone that's curious, this gun is called a SCAR-H, also known as the MK17

[@elftablet7283]

Good, another method. Netfabb isn't..optimal. Thx.

[@exaltdragon]

Not trying to be a naysayer or troll, but didn't Australia outlaw possession of an STL file of a gun?

[@MakersMuse]

+exaltdragon I think its got laws against 3D printing functional guns, not messing with toy stl's that resemble guns!

[@shurmurray]

Not fun. Where is testing of trinus? :))

[@joakimeliasson3244]

So why aren't you just using a polygon modeler? I feel like 3ds max and a cup of your favorite beverage would do a better job. But if youre using meshmixer can't you just make both meshes touch eachother without any tolerence and therefor print as one thing without inner BS?

[@XAD566]

Yeah and 3DS is cheaper than meshm...... Oh wait, no it's not. And blender is not great with triangles

[@joakimeliasson3244]

For the record, I did say polygon modeler.. So any would probably be fine. I just mentioned 3ds max since it is my prefered program. The meshmixer program did okey, but if you are a novice user you would be better of learning a polygon modeler rather than a middle ground software that is somewhat useful but heavily dependent on your models topology.

[@hugmad]

Very nice tutorial, but get some rest and make that review from Trinus printer, i'm all over that!

[@shubhamsagar631]

+maker's muse you don't look good,i think you should get some rest, monster and some cats!~

[@SmokerNor]

Your video would've been so much better if you didn't stare in the camera so much.