Hello. I've been trying to 3D print a model of the Hawkmoon Moonglow from Destiny 1 (picture attached). I have a Bambu X1C. I found a great model online broken up into parts, and even got everything printed nicely, except the barrel. I am trying my hardest to do it entirely printed, no paint. Multicolor prints of the barrel takes an insane amount of time and (wasted) filament and are not an option with my current printer. I've managed to get the feathers isolated to facegroups(file attached), but am struggling with where to go. I did managed to extract, thicken, and then realign the feathers to get a preview of the multicolor print (feathers attached). My next thought was print a barrel with inset holes where I could then insert separately printed feathers, but any of my attempts to cut in holes for the feathers have failed, either through various means in meshmixer or using those thickened feathers to subtract from the barrel I would really appreciate any advice or help that can be given.
Hello. Thank you for the input. I thought generate complex would be the way to go, but I had two main struggles.
1. I was only able to get 3 of the 6 feathers to give me valid facegroup boundaries (and of course not on the same side). I actually had 1 before, but I managed to fix 2 of them by deleting the facegroup and separating shells to find small hidden triangles. However, even with no shells being generated at this point, the other feathers still do not show as black borders.
2. When I select the valid feathers during generate complex and then split complex, the inner surface of the barrel and backside of the feather have terrible geometries. I guess the tool doesn't know I want a flat interface. Is there anyway to clean this up or prevent this?
Ok, ok, I think that figured it out!
I first had to remove the inside edge of the feathers from the facegroup. I knew that would mess up later steps. This is a problem for the other 2(4) feathers, but I think I can modify the geometry to fix it. Then I pretty much followed exactly as you did in the video, with one important difference.
1. Select feather facegroup.
2. Separate.
3. EXTRUDE to flat with enough negative offset to not get fold over triangles (or whatever the proper term is...) but also not intersect barrel hole.
4. Duplicate result, select original section, and delete.
5. Flip normals of resulting shell.
6. Combine with barrel and weld boundaries.
I have yet to print this, but I did slice it and it sliced fine. I'm not sure what the artifacts in the bottom of the hole are (picture 2)...I did try it with inspector/erase&fill, but the geometries never worked out nicely and gave much worse results (picture 1). I also sliced the feather from the extrusion method and it came out fine.
It's going to take me sometime to fix the geometries and do the same to the other feathers, plus print a barrel and 6 feathers. But for now I believe my problems are solved?
