With Blender you can do the same thing as meshmixer, a B/W image (even color) you get an overlay that you can position as you want

Blender is easy. You just have to memorize 3247 different hotkeys

In blender there is a sculpt section too and it works pretty easy.

That was really fun to watch! A great software to model functional stuff with that's affordable, powerful, easy to learn and does really "real" textures would be Rhino 3D (a lot of industrial designers and architects use it). ... and yes, I even remember AutoCad AE (architectural extension) with 3D Studio (that was BEFORE Max)... man, glad those times are over!

This vid deserves more likes

3:38 Me: Just use Ideamaker 3:43 Hey, there it is

Love you

I have got as far as fuzzy skin in Cura and drew the line there!

You've succeded with IdeaMaker, that's better than I did! I watched several videos about it, found profile data for Ender 3 v2, then measured my gantry anyway as I have a different shroud, had a hard time making it to export gcode and in the end my printed nozzle just danced in the air without extruding. So I tried fuzzy skin in Cura and didn't like the look of it for my scarf buttons in the end. I imagined something like meridians on the button in the start but ah well.

Haha! Same tutorials that I abandoned.

Heh... 3DS Max... I even remember using GMax during the days when *Quake ]|[ Arena* ( the original, not the rehash ) was still a thing...

Boy, I'm trying my best to find a way to texture an object, without it growing. It turns out that when you texture an object in IdeaMaker, it's an additive process that makes your object increase in size by adding the texture to the surface. I'm sure there is a word or phrase for this, but I don't know anything about these things so I'm lost. I have an architectural object that I need to texture but I do not need the object to grow in size or change any of it's sized features. I have a feeling this just made a sort of difficult task, more difficult indeed!

I'd be interested if there is a possibility to texturise my model in ideamaker and slice it in cura, because its easy to add a texture using ideamaker but I still want to use my cura profiles. Texturising is indeed a really interesting topic and I'd like to see more about it

Tnx

I'm not sold on ideamaker, its great if youyr doing something really simple, but if you have areas you dont want texture on then its unusable

wtf was that video for

yeah it's awesome until the "Texture Outside Only" option does absolutely nothing. Good luck printing anything functional with textures.

This is a terrible video. I got halfway through it before I couldn't watch any more. The part I watched was just whining about how hard it is instead of getting to the point of the title of the video. I don't see how it could cover a decent tutorial on how to texture 3d prints in the remaining 2.5 minutes.