What is Digital Kitbashing

[@agent_dex8996]

Started doing the same thing with a modular board project of mine in blender. I got tired of waiting for the creator to come out with stuff i wanted so i started learning blender to do it myself. Its been pretty successful so far.

[@mtgmac1]

One of the best parts of the hobby. I have a hint for people doing that for resin prints. Check layer by layer in the place where you mix the meshes of both models, because you don't want to leave holes/empty spaces in the middle of a print. Those one day will lead to your model exploding.

[@Wolf359inc]

I run everything through Microsoft’s 3D Builder, then Simplify3D’s mesh repair, when I join pieces together digitally. Used to use Netfabb, which was great. Cheers,

[@Warjaming]

I *adore* digital kitbashing. I do an absolute tonne of it, changing models i find online to work with OPR models, or just adding some variation. For my Makers Cult Valour Korps (French) army I wanted some female models so I used blender to add some curves to some of my models. Digital kitbashing opens up a whole new world of neat and unique models! I'd say somewhere between a quarter to a third of my overall HDF army is made up of models I kitbashed in some way or another.

[@terrainaholic]

My undead swamp boats came in 3 pieces and I connected them the same way!!!! I just ignored the warning and it just did it!!!

[@TheTrollsCorner]

Why not just import the stls into blender and modify them there?

[@Riverboat374]

Blender is way too complicated to learn. Nobody has time for that.

[@WarbossFitz]

Because blender makes my brain feel fuzzy. I will learn it one day. But today is not that day.

[@TheTrollsCorner]

@WarbossFitz I'm using it to edit models that have thin joints and parts to be thicker so they can survive my fdm printer until I cam get my resin setup going.

[@masterwilliam8704]

Have you tried Orca slicer for your FDM? It is pretty nice. I really like the paint on support feature.

[@WarbossFitz]

I haven't heard of that but will look into it now

[@MrTudenom]

I have a small printer and a ant to cut some stl files up into chunks that are small enough to fit on my little build plate. Do you know of a way to do that? I could see that being handy to delete things like weapons and stitching new ones on too.

[@WarbossFitz]

That's what I use mesh mixer for. It's also possible in 3d builder. It lets you do a plane cut that cuts the model in half wherever you tell it to. Make sure you select to keep both half's.

[@MrTudenom]

Thanks Warboss, much appreciated. I love the channel.

[@Riverboat374]

Been 3D printing for years and had no idea this works. I used to use a Microsoft tool that they have since deleted. How do you deal with STL files that have a bunch of errors? Any trick to repair them? I get that a lot. Even from OPR.

[@WarbossFitz]

Microsoft 3d builder helps a lot with that, it's repair function has worked great for me so far. Then in chitubox there is a repair button that sometimes works, but sometimes breaks it entirely. Then it depends on the error. A hollow void is different than a single pixel unsupported that gets picked up on the next layer.

[@masterwilliam8704]

Have you tried

[@matthewanglin1]

I do not enjoy supporting stls, which stops me from the digital kitbashing.