Creating Multicolor Objects from Solid Models with Meshmixer
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 มิ.ย. 2024
- After quite a bit of research and some trial and error, i figured i would share with you guys how to take any pre-existing model and remix it to be printable in multiparts for multi color or multimaterial
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VERY cool, Joe! One of the things that holds the 4 material option back is the lack of models to take advantage of the four extruders. Now that you've shown a fairly simple way for everyone to take any model and make it multi material compatible, we will hopefully see a LOT more colorful prints!
+3D Printing Nerd thanks brother! I really do hope it catches on or better yet someone does it better! #highfive buddy
I learned more here about this practical usage of MeshMixer in 19 minutes, than I have in quite a few hours of watching more 'formal' videos elsewhere!
Very Nice - This is one of the reasons why your channel is growing so fast! :)
Thank you,
Susi x
+SusiBiker thank you, I appreciate your kind words. I will try to do more of them :)
Awesome stuff, Joe! Thanks for experimenting with Palette+ and teaching others how to make multi-color & multi-material models!
+Mosaic Manufacturing this video what's entirely thanks to you guys so thank you :) I'm just trying to spread the word :)
Great presentation, a lot clearer and less hectic than others, you are a great teacher.
Incredible. I really need to sit down and start using meshmixer. This was a great tutorial
+Uncle Jessy have to say that it was a relatively good but frustrating first experience, but well worth going deeper into. Quite a powerful tool
I know this has been around for awhile, but this was very well put together. Several steps in the process that I have been looking for are contained in this video. Now if I could find a good option for aligning objects in Cura I would be good to go. I am excited to print my first 2 color print - a storm trooper helmet. You made it a lot easier. Thanks!!!
This is what I was looking for. Thank you!
Nice tutorial. Good result. Meshmixer rocks.
Really great and amazing tutorial. That's really very useful and will boost the "multi color" feature.
+All About 3D Blog thank you, hopefully more models will now be remixed :)
Excelente tutorial, tudo muito bem explicado fácil de entender, acabei de adquiri uma Pallet2 Pro e estou iniciando na impressão 3D, seu vídeo foi de grande importância para orientar como separar um modelo e gerar diversos STLs.
Parabéns...
Thanks. I now am even more excited to try my 2 in 1 out hotend.
Hi Joe Another great video. 1 tip ( well 2 in one) before doing anything to the model it is best to select the model then menu "edit" then "align" This will put the model at the center X0 Y0 Z0 ( center on most print beds too) Then also check the scale and adjust if needed. I've had issues in the past when moving/scaling multiple part objects in Meshmixer
+bigfilsing THANK YOU! I really couldn't find my way around meshmixer for these options and this help a lot! :)
you are welcome. Mesh mixer is a weird program in as much as 1 day after using it I forget nearly all the commands and options and have to "dig" them out again when I use it again. Its nearly always worth it and as far as free software goes it's well up on the list.
Great job for the 1st MeshMixer attempt!!! Thanks
+3D Gussner thank you :)
Thanks Joe! :) Im still plucking up the courage to build my MMU but your videos are helping me a lot. Keep up the great work! Dave
+Zap Wrapz welcome :) trust me there is nothing to worry about, it's relatively easy to build and print with :)
Cheers Joe, i'll make sure to have your upgrade video in the background when doing it ;)
Helpful video, gonna have to try this. Thanks for another great tip!
+Bob Bob thanks for watching :)
3D Maker Noob Thanks for uploading and sharing!
great tutorial and very useful, well done!
+Haim Bilia thank you :)
Hi Joe, I hope you and your family are well. I just purchased a 3D Chameleon and this looks like the way to get multi-color from single color STL. Have you done any more videos on splitting models in MeshMixer for multi-color printing?
Can't wait for the creality Ender 2 review. I can see the printer in the background. You can also add a belt tensioner to it as well.
+Moots actually I will be adding it too :)
Joe, do you think it will eventually be possible to use the purge printing to print the infill instead of wasting it on the purge block?
that is a brilliant idea.
Thanks for an excellent tutorial. Will all the different parts automatically reconnect at their supposed places in the slicer?
Question about slicers for dual extrusion: Cura or PrusaSlicer. (I use Cura for single extrusion printing but was wondering if Prusa is maybe not better or easier to learn for dual extrusion.)
Thanks for the informative video!
Thank you very much!
Woooow, awesome job, really awesome
+Corvo Con V thank you :)
One thing that annoys me when using meshmixer is that when you cut off the arms, feet, and shoulder, but had not yet done the head, it had already lost a lot of detail in the fine creases of they eyes and around the mouth. It tends to remesh more of the model than I want. For fdm printing I don't think this will ever be visible, but I have seen some of the 'crease triangulation' show up in resin prints. There are probably settings that can be tweaked for that, but as you say, it is a pretty big system killer, heh. GREAT video by the way! Really like your channel!
The Wreck it Ralph model looks awesome. =)
+Fredrik Bärg haha yeah I love it :)
Brilliant, thanks, one question, if I have gone over a line quite a bit but didn't notice until I had finished that whole part, how can I erase the bit that has gone onto another section before I smooth the edge as it is still there afterwards otherwise?
Do you prefer using the prusa multimaterial or the palette for multicolor / multimaterial prints? Without having used either I would think that the palette would be better for multicolor as it won't have to do the wipe/clean on every colorchange, but the prusa would be better for multimaterial where you may have materials with different temperature needs (not sure if palette software can handle stuff like that, or even if prusa can), mostly thinking about mixing flexible and solid materials.
you can also change the brush size with your right and left bracket keys...( [ this one makes it smaller ] this one makes it larger...
Any tips for separating the complexes into parts so you can color print with one extruder?
Thanks for the Meshmixer Learn to do :-))
Hi, great video on splitting stl, but can you please post other video splitting stl which is hollow, like flower vase
That was awesome, great info as i JUST got the MMU muwahaha
+DigChaos haha, awesome. You're gonna love it
Joe, I really enjoyed your detailed presentation of the Meshmixer tool, and I'm all excited about being able to create my own "mixes" for my Prusa i3 MK3S with MMU2. However, after following all your steps, I get to the EXPORT point, and my list of export formats does not include any "Sequence" options. (STL ASCII is there, and STL Binary, but not STL Binary Sequence nor its ASCII partner... same goes for OBJ.)
I have posted a message to Autodesk's Fusion360 forum (which is, I'm sure, not the right place), and I have posted a bug with Autodesk (for which I expect no response since it seems to be unique to me). I've uninstalled and reinstalled. I thought it might be a corrupt "stuck" .DLL file, so I've also installed onto a fresh laptop, with the same result. I've tried V3.3 and V3.5... nothing seems to bring these options to me.
Do you have any ideas that might help me get past this? I'm a techie with tons of computer experience, and I'm completely baffled.
That pony looks crazy. Maybe sharpie some corneas in there, maybe blue
+Matt Fisher my daughter already called dibs on the eye coloring lol
Never used Meshmixer, but if I were splitting this up in Blender, I'd get around that problem with the shirt collar by extruding the edges to a single point in the middle of the hole, and pull that point into the body, making something of an inverted cone which doesn't intersect the sides of the neck.
Nice Tutorial! I don't have MM yet, but good primer for the brain bank!
+Practical Printing haha now you need to get one ;)
Awesome video :) thank you
+Filipe Carvalho thanks :)
Hey Joe, first of all, congratulations for your great job... If you could please answer which one is the software you used to do this? Kind regards from Mexico City... :)
Thanks buddy, I used meshmixer :)
Hey Joe, great video. Just one question, which multi color system do you prefer the mosaic or the Prusa Multi material?? Big thumbs up!!
+Gundi Ochoa to be honest, both are equally good. What I like about the palette is that I can use it on any printer I have or future ones
Hope you can upload more videos on the palette in the future. Keep up the great work!!
thanks for sharing
I know the video is little old. But every time i click creat face group it doesnt do anything
Instead of saving all the files under a similar names with numbers after you can save them one by one with unique names by clicking on the parts in the Object Browser. Just might help with organizing later...
Great video once again Joe. Apart from the issue on each side of the head, it seems You missed more skin. In the video his shirt seems to be a V-neck?
+Karsten well spotted, it's actually his green undershirt. I missed it on purpose not to complicate the print too much for the tutorial
Great Tutorial! Thank you very much for share this idea.
Now i have a question. Because im only have a single color printer, if i print the seperated part individualy by the color i want. And glue it together manually. It will be fit precisely or not?
+Vincent Sagita technically it should, you might have small issues with tolerances though
3D Maker Noob Nice... Thanks!
Hi I noticed that you have anycube printer I3 mega is it possible to change to Direct drive for the filament thank you
Man this is awesome. But you should really really really give the pegasus some irises. It looks sooo creepy :O
+Philipp Thiele haha, yeah I know, but I needed to record first as my daughter already called dibs on it :)
Hi I have a question about the STL saving file whenever I am exporting the cuts that I make there is no option for STL binary sequence one file per region the only option is STL Binary format any help pls?
Love he Meshmixer vid's on TH-cam, but My computer always crashes before I get done with a project in Meshmixer. Just can't afford the Powerful computing power required to do involved things in Meshmixer. But still like seeing these great videos on how to do it !
+Robothut yes it is quite hungry for power, mine was struggling at many points which is why I kept on saving progress
So when do you plan on making a review for the Anycubic i3 Mega?
+Logan Turner should be up by tomorrow or the day after :)
thank you
Hi Joe,
I am having trouble downloading MeshMixer!!! Any assistance?
Nice video keep up
They should make a button that outlines all then u fill in canvas u can do that!
Im trying this on an object but its not working correctly
Masilimo tu video...
tevo little monster 3d printer vs prusa i3 Mk2s kit... thoughts?
+Wandering Eclipse the little monster is awesome, but it can never produce the detailed quality that the prusa has due to it's size and the fact it's a Delta, I will review it shortly
wow good job, you put in some big efforts, so how do you rate this?
A - tear jerking difficult and elaborate
B - exhausting much research and trial and error
C - potentially rage quit worthy
D - not really doable for 3d noobs but if you insist really hard. maybe...
+3d guy247 I'd go for B, it's a long task, while this was a quick tutorial, it took me about 2 hours to do with lots of backtracking and trying to find issues. However, the second one I did (pony) took me about an hour and was much more intricate
Great Tutorial!
Why not try it on the OpenRC F1 Car? Try to recreate the color scheme of an actual car ^^
Christoph Friedrich that would be awesome, but incredibly time consuming.
Any chance on getting the pony model?
Edit: Nevermind, description tells everything :x
+DerpyDoom hehe, no worries :)
Meshmixer has not been updated for 5 years, being retired for Fusion 360. Are you planning a tutorial using Fusion 360?
to be honest nowadays slicers like prusaslicer and bambustudio have colouring features on the m which allows you to literally pain the material on the parts. using fusion for this specific purpose could be near imopossible
You can paint them as well😀
+Karl Johnson yes you can, but you can't paint it into a different material ;)
3D Maker Noob agreed, soluble supports are what really interest me the most with multimaterial. But so expensive
+Karl Johnson true, and for single models might not be feasible but well worth it for production, prototyping and multiple simultaneous prints
Seems a lot of work, but seeing the finished print worth it
+Wayne keeling it is quite a bit of work initially, but you get used to the shortcuts and so on so it does become easier :)
Why do I get this in 360p only?
+Mariusz Chwalba it's still rendering as it was just uploaded. Give it a few minutes
i got it at 1080
First!
Second?
darn!
+The Gentleman Scoundrel haha, that's by far your shortest comment ever on this channel :)
+bird on a rock sorry :p
It had to be, otherwise Bird on a rock would have beaten me! Now that I've finished the video, I have to say that was a really great look at the work flow. Now, I come from a CG art background, so I look at this and immediately say, "I bet I could do this pretty easily in Blender." Not that I have the multimaterial capability yet... Though, just as sort of a homework assignment, are there any models you'd really like to see in multimaterial? I'd be tempted to see how the workflow compares in Blender and put teh model up on Thingiverse for the world to see.
Do you still read these comments? If so, I did exactly what you did and it's different. I will explain better if you respond.
WICKED METHOD 2 STEPS FORWARD NO STEPS BACK LOL