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Thanks for the help! Yeah I don’t really have the time for a deep dive into CAD right now. I have done some very basic edits to an STL file before, but what I want now is beyond my skill.
Did you say there’s a way to sketch a 3D model? I have a drawing pad. Is there a CAD program you recommend to do that with? I don’t mind doing the trial and error printing on my end, even though my printer is painfully slow.
The proper way to model is with sketches this involves mapping out 2D geometry on a plane and then performing operations on these sketches to make them into a 3D object.
All of our printers are pretty slow. That is not the issue. I do lots of unit tests where I print isolated sections of a print just to test whatever I need. Based on my intuition alone, I would need a couple of weeks to make something like this and I would probably need at least 3-4 iterations of a design where I'm printing the whole thing and doing tests, learning, and then starting over from scratch if I wanted to make something that really works.
do you know how i can move the holes around on the ocarinas on this file i remixed? i'm using tinkercad but can use something else.
If the surface is symmetrical on the other side that I cannot see. Make a duplicate, invert it and place it over the surface.
If you need help, save it as a STEP file and I'll do it for you. STEP is text so you should be able to use something like pastebin.