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Thursday, August 28. 2008

Fixing Non-manifold meshes

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We're working hard at comming up with new tutorials for you guys so that it becomes easier to upload models to Shapeways. We have a number of regular tutorials on site but are experimenting with video too. Bart, our in house modeling guru, made this video describing how you can fix non-manifold meshes.

Watch it here.

Non-manifoldness is something a lot of modelers and designers really don't encounter untill they start designing something that has to be 3d printed. The explanations of manifold and non-manifold is rather complicated but we will give you some more background in a future post. For now, Bart can show you how to solve it.

We really like the idea video tutorials but want to know if you do too. Is the video useful? Did it load quickly? How was pausing and replaying parts of the video? Would you prefer a video tutorial or would you like it a lot more if we just did screenshot tutorials as we have been doing? Please let us know!


Posted by Joris Peels in What's Hot at 09:23

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Nicely done.

I found it slow, but as I have quite some experience of Blender, so I may not speak for everybody here ;-)
Please add text captions to the video : much easier to understand for non-english speakers, you can pause to re-read or lookup a definition easily. Plus it is useful to not be forced to unmute sound and grab headphones when working in a busy environment.

I must admit that, unless the topic is completely unknown to me and extremely complex, I prefer html text with screenshots : it is more concise, searchable/websearchable, and it is easier to skim when knowing the subject. With a video, unless you spent the time to see and hear the whole length, you can't be sure you did not skip the only bit to learn :-)
#1 andre.bois on 2008-08-31 20:02 (Reply)

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