April 26, 2014
Autodesk MeshMixer is a powerful free tool for working with 3D mesh files. It allows a great deal of creativity and is perfect for importing, editing, modifying and painting organic models.
Last week MeshMixer released a new update that lets you add your own 3D printer so you can layout and arrange a print job for your specific machine.
With this release, there are several noteworthy updates including:
- 3D Printing Improvement: Add/Edit a custom printer. This allows you to prep your 3D prints for any 3D printer.
- New Make Slices tool: Slice an object into a number flat slices. Two techniques: Stacked or Stacked3D
- New drag/drop solid objects in addition to parts. Addition of primitives category
- Added part categories to the Meshmix panel to accommodate growing libraries of parts and solids
- New "Separate Shells" tool to separate combined but separate geometry into separate objects
- Better naming of newly created objects from duplicate, separate, etc…
- PLY binary format support
- 3Dconnexion space mouse support
- Other bug-fixes and stability improvements
Watch the video below to see how much fun it can be to use Meshmixer for 3D modeling. You can learn more about this user-friendly app here.
Pendant designed in Meshmixer. A multi-material print on a Stratasys Connex machine
Posted in 3D Design
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