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    Splitting a object easier?

    My flashforge creator pro is on its way (Woo!!!) Few more day's and I will be printing things finally. But my question is, say I have a object that I want to make bigger, at the moment I'm wanting to make this "painting" but bigger ( http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:472295) , say around 24in x 24 in. Currently I am using tinkercad to split up the pieces into the correct size, but its quite a process on there to just basically, cut out pieces from the stl.

    Any easier way to go about cutting objects faster I guess is my question. Maybe I will give photoshop a shot with a 2D image, split the layers, then extrude them back to 3D.

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    Good choice, it should serve you well.

    There is many ways to split objects, I do it manually in blender myself, but if you want a good tool, try meshmixer http://www.meshmixer.com/download.html
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    Ahh I actually have that downloaded already. I will give it a shot. I want to get into making large-sized things basically, one small piece at a time :P

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bassna View Post
    Ahh I actually have that downloaded already. I will give it a shot. I want to get into making large-sized things basically, one small piece at a time :P
    Pretty much all I do these days

    The largest I've done so far is 30 parts, helmets mainly, I posted some pics in these threads

    http://3dprintboard.com/showthread.p...m-Trooper-Mask

    http://3dprintboard.com/showthread.p...ial-Guard-Mask
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    Well I believe I got it all split up by using Netfabb Basic, total 20 parts. You should check that program out, it helped quite a bit with that splitting items. Although they are not going to piece together correctly unless I put a small back on it i believe. All the more reason to try out the Dual extruders eh?

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    I used meshmixer & it works the way I want

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