From the course: Meshmixer: 3D Print Prep Basics
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Cutting and fixing holes - Meshmixer Tutorial
From the course: Meshmixer: 3D Print Prep Basics
Cutting and fixing holes
- [Instructor] This video is how to cut and enlarge or do things with holes. Pretty simple, but it can be a little bit interesting in Mesh Mixer, so that's why we're recording this video. I have the default bunny here. So obviously, the easiest way to cut a hole in your model is just to go into Select and draw a hole and hit the delete key or the x key to discard it. You now have a hole in your model, but since Mesh Mixer is a shell-based modeling tool, you don't have a hole on the other side. It's just a hole through one skin. And if I click and try to select inside of here, nothing happens. So first of all, if you're dealing with holes in Mesh Mixer, you want to do two things. You want to make sure you are in the Mesh Mixer shading mode. So there's all sorts of shading modes. If I go into this, it's beautiful and golden, but I lose a lot of information. So I see this inside of here is also gold. That doesn't help me as much. You want to make sure you go into Shaders, you go all the…
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