Combining multiple meshes for 3D printing

[matt.wilmot]

Hi guys.

I am looking for a way to combine multiple meshes together that become a single stitched mesh with a single element. Not one mesh with multiple elements.

I have tried using pro-boolean and Boolean in max and it kind of makes a mess of it.

I wondered if it works be simpler/better in Maya?

I normally would use Dynamesh in Zbrush, which works pretty much perfectly at combining all objects together as one.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers
Matt

[tony.su]

You can use Maya.

But, I'm not sure why you couldn't use 3ds max to combine multiple meshes. It should be work. Could you explain why it don't work in your project? Or do I misunderstood your question?

[matt.wilmot]

Everytime I have used the booleans to merge multiple meshes in to one using "union" "merge" and so on, it never works well. Some operands make the whole mesh disappear, or merges will not delete faces that inside the main mesh that you don't see.
Dynamesh merges and deletes inner faces that you don't see, welds them and quadrangular es the mesh.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but max doesn't do that?

[matt.wilmot]

Everytime I have used the booleans to merge multiple meshes in to one using "union" "merge" and so on, it never works well.

Some operands make the whole mesh disappear, or merge's will not delete faces that inside the main mesh that you don't see.

Dynamesh in Zbrush, merges meshes, deletes inner faces that you don't see, welds them and quadrangulates the mesh.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but max doesn't do that?

[mspeer · Accepted solution]

Hi!

Booleans work different than volumetric/grid-based solutions (different pros and cons):

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-modeling/remeshing-for-3d-printing/td-p/7514219

[matt.wilmot · Accepted solution]

Ahhh so meshmixer does what I'm talking about. Great thanks for the link