Splitting object for Duel extrusion?

[Bassna]

I have been looking for a way to split items, mainly like this is done. http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:67503

Anyone have any idea of how to go about doing something like this?

[LambdaFF]

Well, You can split and cut meshes in many tools but what they do is algorithm generated and unless you've got neat programming skills, it's hard to imitate.

However, there is a cheap way to try something similar : you randomly generate shapes that intersect your existing mesh and you do boolean substraction to substract those shapes from your mesh to create your first "half". Then you substract this from your orginal mesh to do another "half". I must warn you, it won't be anywhere as pretty or it will require a lot of effort to do so.

[Geoff]

I have been looking for a way to split items, mainly like this is done. http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:67503

Anyone have any idea of how to go about doing something like this?

That is done using a mathematical script, programs do it for you often, there isn't much programming required unless you are a genius and can basically program your own fractal algorithm

Check this out..

http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/sc...acture-voronoi

[Bassna]

Been playing with that Geoff for a few days on and off, still no luck with what I'm trying to do. I'm sure 3DS has the ability to do this somewhere. Just basically split a mesh into 2 inter-locking stl files, is really what I'm going for. I'm trying to make small ring's with the dual extruder just like the model I posted. There's gotta be a easier way to go about doing such a thing?

[Geoff]

Been playing with that Geoff for a few days on and off, still no luck with what I'm trying to do. I'm sure 3DS has the ability to do this somewhere. Just basically split a mesh into 2 inter-locking stl files, is really what I'm going for. I'm trying to make small ring's with the dual extruder just like the model I posted. There's gotta be a easier way to go about doing such a thing?

I have 3DS but never tried that in it, but so far there has never been anything I can't figure out after a good google or youtube session pretty flat out at the moment but ill see if I can give it a try

[Bassna]

I have 3DS but never tried that in it, but so far there has never been anything I can't figure out after a good google or youtube session pretty flat out at the moment but ill see if I can give it a try

I feel you, I got tired last night after a few hours of messing around and figured I would try again today. I was messing around with Tinkercad using shapes to remove about half of the ring, then duplicating and trying to get the other half cut out. If I can get it decent I will post it.

Update - I got a decent version worked out by using shape holes with Tinkercad, it came out pretty decent. http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:559504

Still not exactly what I was looking to accomplish, but it's a start!