Paint Tool

The Paint Tool allows you to change the materials and colors of your models.

If you are exporting for multi-color printing, parts within a group will be grouped into STLs by these materials.

Quick Start

Start the Paint Tool by clicking on its icon ( ) in the toolbar.

You will now see a large variety of material spheres in the right-side menu. Select the material you want to paint with and click on any part of the model to change its material.

Paint Modes

There are a number of useful tips and tricks when working with the paint tool:

brush

icon on the bottom right to paint individual parts.

format_paint

icon on the bottom right to paint all parts of a certain material at once. (For example, clicking on any steel part will paint all steel parts of that model)

format_color_fill

icon on the bottom right to fill all parts of a model at once.

delete

icon on the bottom right or hold down

Alt

to go into delete mode. This will reset any part's material.

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Material Menu

In the right-side menu, you can see all the materials that are available to paint with.

The one outlined in blue is the current material that you are painting with. You can change the current material by clicking on a different one. You can change which materials are displayed by clicking on the categories at the top of the menu.