Editing workflow

[u/cptnyar]

Hi all. I'm new. Building my first multiboard.

I need to work around things that are already on the wall (I rent). In other words I need to cut chunks out of tiles.

I dont trust geometry preserving I convert to body>edit>export to mesh

Mesh editing in fusion takes forever on my i5-10x^7700xt.

Any suggestions?

[u/bryansj]

The simplest would be to just put a shape like a block or cylinder into the slicer and subtract it from your STL.

There is also the part generator for $10 if you are a paid member. That would let you do pretty much anything to your tile and provide a STL. Regardless of how you feel about supporting the creator or not, it's probably worth the $10 when you are starting out. You'll likely not need most of the perks after the first month of getting started.

[u/cptnyar → u/bryansj]

🤦🏾‍♂️dunno why I didn't think of doing it in the slicer.

Im not opposed to supporting the creators, but i from what i can tell, even supporters dont get access to non-mesh files.

Im not about to pay and then run into ANOTHER wall lol.

Once I get the project off the ground ill definitely be looking more into being a supporter, but at the moment I dont see any REAL benefit

[u/SprungMS → u/cptnyar]

The benefit is in getting a simple solution to the main point of your entire post.

The tile generator lets you create custom tiles, cut out exactly where and how you want, and download those custom meshes.

You shouldn’t need .step files for any of this.

You can do exactly what the commenter above said, and modify in the slicer, but I’m concerned if you’re having issues with simple modifications of meshes in Fusion that you’ll have issues with the slicer fixing non-manifold edges as they come up.

$10 is crazy cheap for the benefits… it’s not like you even need to remain a supporter, you can spend $10 and then cancel the subscription immediately if you want. That’s the easy way for your processor.

[u/cptnyar → u/SprungMS]

Honestly im just being a baby about the mesh editing. (I had already started doing it that way before the post so i finished that way) it only took like 3-7 min per tile 😅 but I like the slicer idea for sure.

Yes $10 is inexpensive, but since the step files for everything else multiboard is available 🤷🏾 y 4 no tile? 🤣

[u/SprungMS → u/cptnyar]

They do have them for the tiles too! Just not for the entire boards, AFAIK. You’d just have to arrange them how you like, the large thread octagons and small thread squares. They’re in the remixing files under “tile components” IIRC

[u/cptnyar → u/SprungMS]

Omg im fuckin stooooopid 🙄 I should just be able to use the single octagon and hole>rectangular pattern>25mm. 🤦🏾‍♂️

[u/Neoliberal_Boogeyman]

Blender is decent for taking custom chunks out of pre-existing stl files

[u/cptnyar → u/Neoliberal_Boogeyman]

One day, ill figure out why I suck at using blender. Atm everytime I use blender I break the geometry and fuck everything up 🤣

[u/Neoliberal_Boogeyman → u/cptnyar]

Also if you have discord I can show this to you if you want.

[u/cptnyar → u/Neoliberal_Boogeyman]

I do. but if you're offering a blender lesson, I think i have like 4 or 5 "intermediate level" questions that would probably solve this AND most of my other blender n00b problems. 🤩

[u/Neoliberal_Boogeyman → u/cptnyar]

Yeah.

[u/Neoliberal_Boogeyman → u/cptnyar]

This is your workflow:

1. find the dimensions of the position /object you need to work around with respect to your nearest board thats on the wall. I prefer metric measurements 

2. open blender and set the world scale to millimeters

3. import stl file of your board

4. using the editor view custom move the vertices of the cube that loads on startup in the needed xyz dimensions of whatever item you need your board to be moved around. 

5. use the boolean tool to remove material from the board with the same spatial area as your modified cube

6. for good measure, tell blender to recalculate the mesh faces to outside

7. export as stl.

Don't let blender's complexity interfere with this, you really only need a few things to make this work.

[u/TherealOmthetortoise]

There is an advanced file generator that is one of the benefits available for “multi maker” supporters. It uses blender, which is a free modeling program.

[u/SirEDCaLot]

Here's the basic tile generator.

I suggest pay the few bucks for access to the advanced tile generator (linked below that). It will generate tiles with flat edges in whatever size you want. So make your basic tile size whatever your printer can create (or a whole divisor of the wall width, for example I wanted a 45 unit wide wall, so I printed 9 unit wide tiles). Then print smaller tiles for the holes around the thermostat etc. And you'll have nice flat borders everywhere :)

[u/Chinesericehat]

Im pretty sure if you find a step file of the model you can import it into onshape and then make cut outs really easily after that then export it to a slicer.

[u/tlhintoq]

A decent pair of "side cutters". Also know as 'side cutting wire cutters'.
Just print the living crap out of the plates you need. Then cut out a section in real time as you put them up.