I am working on a vase form for 3D printing. Is there a way to increase the thickness of the vase interior wall while retaining the form and size of the exterior surface?
You could:
- Try to group the interior wall of the vase as a separate polygroup from the exterior. Run the Tool > Polygroups> Group by Normals function with a Max angle tolerance value around 20-30 until you get the results you want. You needn’t get a perfect grouping of the interior wall. You just need a result that groups the exterior portions in a manner that allows you to reliably isolate them, group them together (group visible), and from there invert the visible mesh portion and group the remaining elements. It would then be a simple matter to mask the exterior only.
http://docs.pixologic.com/user-guide/3d-modeling/modeling-basics/mesh-visibility/
- Hold down CTRL for your active brush in order to Mask, and while still holding it down, turn on the Brush > Auto Masking > Backface Automask function for mask mode. This will allow you to Paint masking on the exterior of the base with a large brush without masking the interior. Once you have the mask painted, you might consider grouping the exterior with the Tool> Polygroups> Group Masked function so that you can easily isolate it in the future.
Once you have the interior isolated from the exterior and masked or hidden, either scale the interior further towards the center with transpose, or the Tool > Deformation > Size, or Deformation> Inflate function, whichever gives better results depending on the situation.
Thanks . . . I appreciate it . . . I’lll find a relatively simple form and give it a shot . . .