Painting a sculpt for 3D printing
Hello,
I’m new here, otherwise a bit old. I’ve been producing some reasonable simple sculpting results in 3DC v4.8 and prepared a couple of files as STL’s to send to Shapeways. Those have been straightforward, single-colour prints.
Now, I have a sculpt to which I’d like to add colour and then send off for Shapeways to print in full colour.
The story so far:
I made a precise but simple shape in Rhino, which I then imported (STL) into 3DC to add lumps and bumps by sculpting;
@En0a
If your printers support vertex color printing. In 3DC you can vertex color paint (polypaint) the sculpt room surface mode models. The vertex color will be exported in the file. several file formats support vertex color. I do not know the file format that your printers support.
Model in first picture is vertex color painted.
The other workflow would be the same as one I gave Phil minus the Blender part as you want just to paint some color variations.
I do not know how