Is there a way to uncut/key a file? I want to print it all as one piece.

  • Apepollo11@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    To avoid the gaps you can line them up with an overlap.

    You can adjust the vertices of the model slightly to help facilitate this. The most natural-feeling way to do it in Blender is by using the Sculpt mode.

    You can use a Boolean addition operation to then make the two models a single piece of geometry. Or not bother (if you are printing on FDM or at 100% infill in resin, it won’t really hurt either way).

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      3 months ago

      This feels like the way to go. Any tips on where to find a tutorial for doing this in blender? Or even just what I should google lol

      • morbidcactus@lemmy.ca
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        3 months ago

        This is subtractive rather than additive but I ended up following this video vaguely as a start when I was doing keychains. Cad packages weren’t enjoying the vector image. I ended up creating an stl for the components (text, image and body) and merging them with a boolean operation, think this might help you get started as I had no idea where to even look.