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Create your own 3D models and 2D sprites! · By Kenney

Asset Forge for 3D printing

A topic by Gxiraudon created Sep 02, 2019 Views: 1,205 Replies: 8
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My hobbies now shifted from gamedev to 3d printing and I must say Asset Forge can somewhat be used for making 3D printed models. 

However, you can't just export the whole obj file of your custom model because the final .obj model isnt optimized for 3D printing. (The individual blocks, by itself, are 3D printable)

What you can do if you want to 3d print your model, dissassemble it on AssetForge, export the dissassembled parts as a single obj file and export it to TinkerCad.

Separate the parts in TinkerCad (that's another story) and reassemble it there.

Export it as .stl file, slice it on your slicer and print it !!

Here is a 3D printed spaceship made in AssetForge


Hey this is pretty cool :)

That looks really cool actually! The plan is to add STL file format support in Asset Forge 2 (free update in December) which should be better suited for 3D printing.

Thank you very much. I never thought this was part of your plan for the future. I now look forward to Asset Forge 2.

Kenney...you are brilliant.

Hi Kenney, the STL format is available yet?

He did. One of the feature additions to the beta release was this: 

*Added STL, DAE (Collada) and glTF file format for exporting 3D models

oh Great :)

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Hi, I test it and it's very cool. Tomorrow I will post some pictures of the printed elements.

One issue I detected is that when you print the blocks or elements they appear as blocks, I mean that you see the elements perfectly joined but with the line that divide each element. One workaround is import into meshmixers and make it solid.

Salut,

Josep M