Let's say you have a cookie-cutter mould, named: 'cookie', and the kid's name written on it: 'kidname'. This allows exporting each part separately. In your CAD-software, can you hide parts of a complex model?įor example in DesignSpark Mechanical (=free but requiring registration, and only suitable for geometric models, not for organic life-forms): as long as the parts are not merged, I can simply hide each by unchecking it.

so if the option were available at this stage it would be a trivial matter to simply produce the two STL files needed for two colour printing, one of the original model and one of the applied textĭoes anyone know if there is any such software available? I have the original 3D model, the text has been applied so the software knows exactly what the text is and on to which surface it has been placed. In my mind it seems I am missing a simple but very logical step. I can add the text to any contoured surface of an existing 3D model quickly and easily with almost any basic or even free software but then I have to open the 'merged' file (original model with the text) in Meshmixer and mess about for ages trying to split it all out again to create the two STL files required for printing in two colours. We have been trying different methods and keep trying Meshmixer but what a time consuming performance that is. I want to be able to add the name of students on to their completed 3D models and then quickly and easily create two TL files, one of the original model and the second with the text split out so that we can print their work with their name on it in a different colour.

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