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#1

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Please help!
I´ve never had anything 3d printed before and I need to get this out to the printers for a 500mm high print and later on a life-size print. The figures are going to be printed seperately and glued together later.The printers already told me that the material is too thin so I need to thicken it. I´ve tried Deformation>inflate and size but this doesn´t thinken the material. (they told me the thinest they go is 0.8 mm but I´ve no idea how to measure this on Zbrush)The other problem I have is that I think I need to fill in the gaps between the material and the figures but do I have to do this manually? Or is it enough just to simply merge the subtools ie. the shorts and shirt merged with the body?
Many thanks,
Luke

#2

tool>subtool>thick>set slider distance
tool>subtool>extract

for a 3d print you’re probably going to want to cap all of your holes as well.
The main problem you’re going to have is non manifold errors with the geometry you have right now. thickening the object will fix the problem…but only slightly.
You need to think about the internal structure of the object, what material you’re printing it will, is it going to be hollow, or solid, honeycomb, etc.

#3

Thank you for that, much apprieciated!

#4

When I do this my mesh becomes damn near unrecognizable?

#5

I guess the problem is the cloth thickness… what I would do is just make them a solid part closing the holes. It doesnt matter if the subtools interesects. if there are too much space betwen the cloth and the body and you think it looks unnatural you can kind of scult a litte bit but always remembering not to make the borders too slim. I´m sure you can find some better indications about how to prepare models for printing.

#6

For me it was best to keep the slider to a very low number like 0.01 when extracting.