Great video! Click the little "S" icon (bottom-left of the transform gizmo) to turn on snapping, and you will be able to move in precise increments. The A icon toggles absolute/relative mode (relative is what you would want if you want to move in increments from the starting point, vs in the world grid). If you want more snap points, use the up and down arrow keys. You can also use the Soft Transform tool to resize features based on face groups.

I always learn something new here, thanks for sharing :)

Excellent helpful video! Thank you so much

Thank you, this is very useful.

now that was a helpful video...thumbs up

It you check on the green 'S', that will enable snap. And then you can deform down by exactly how much you want.

Thanks for the helpful videos. Keep it up.

I was trying to do this last night and when double clicking the facegroup, the selection was also selecting triangles that BORDERED the facegroup. In your example with the dragon head it would have grabbed all the triangles in the dragon and all triangles that shared an edge with the dragon. For what I wanted to do, that was VERY problematic. I wad trying to cleanly remove some interior detail on a hollow part so I could fill it in. The facegroups were made correctly, but double clicking on select was behaving badly. Has this changed in the past 3 years? my version of meshmixer is whatever was new about 6 months ago.

Awesome! Too easy.

how do i undo generate facegroups? i want to get rid of the face group boundries after i modded the parts but there isnt a single page on google about if i can or not and not a single video ive watched so far including yours has explained it.

How well would this work on filling in text on a curved surface? I have a file I am looking at working with and want to fill in the text they have put on the surface. I started working with it in meshmixer (which i know little to nothing about) while following another tutorial found on youtube that suggested I just select all of the triangles by hand and then delete and use the inspector to auto-repair the surface (which leaves a faint outline of the letters and some crazy geometry). This method has proved to be extremely time consuming considering the model is meant to fit in your hand and doesnt have that much text but has a lot of individual triangles to select.

can you use face groups to curve a 3d object, like say around a cup

thanks

Hi Angus. I know this videos are a quite bit old but I am learning a lot thru them. I am already selecting pieces, creating groups and etc very easily now, but I am still missing the knowledge on how to properly separate some pieces on an STL. Its not simply a plain cut. For example, I am importing a Home Simpson and I want to separate his eyes to print in another color. Just selecting, creating facegroup then generating complex and spliting it give me kind of a good result, but the back of the eye follows the front eye curvature, and I would like it to be flat to print easily without supports and would be easier to fit back. So, how could I cut an eye of a figure, in a way that is has at least 2mm high, flat back surface to print and also leave the hole on the face the same way to fit back... do you have any video that shows that ? Any training I could do. I am really in need of this knowledge, has studied lot, went try a dozen of videos but no one explains that. Thank you !

Hi Angus, finally bought the Up! Mini commercialized by PP3DP :). So in what orientation would you print the final model showed in this video? And how would you make latches that can be easily made in 3D printing for this kind of enclosures? printing enclosures is quite of ineffective and difficult. Specially adding that kind of carved logos. Any tips? . Also, what's the difference between open / closed extruded fan? How to print pieces in abs without a raft? Can I print directly to the heatbed? So Many doubts! Thanks!??

I love your vids but I am still waiting on my 3d printer to arrive. So most of the time I have no idea what is going on, lol.

thanks! )