Hello, thanks in advance for any help. I have a little project I am trying to do-- I would like to merge a “Mag quadsafe universal adapter” with a Galaxy Fold 3 case. I have both STLs and i began playing with blender yesterday, and it’s possibly a little above my head.

What it seems like the steps are from my (peprhaps simplistic) point of view:

  • trim the openings on mag quad adapter to fit the camera lens and side buttons when it is perfectly centered on the case.
  • delete a square the exact size of the magsafe quadlock adapter that is perfectly centered on the back of the phone case
  • put the current model from the mag quad stl in thus square

The only thing I’ve been able to accomplish thus far is centering the mag quad adapter on top of the case. I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to trim in to fit the camera and side button openings…

Any help is greatly appreciated, even if it’s just a starting point.

  • Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Do you have some pictures and drawing to explain what you want to achieve?

    I agree with the comment about using something simpler than Blender. Blender is the right tool for organic shapes and for sculpting.

    What I understand is that you have two models, one for a phone case, one of a “hole” for fixing a magnetic holder.

    I use OpenSCAD. With this tool, this would be my logic (could be replicated in other tools :

    • import the mag holder stl
    • create a rough shape, like a cylinder, that would fill the hole
    • make a “difference()” between the cylinder and the mag holder. This way, the cylinder has the shape of the complex hole. You can then use this shape to make a hole in the stl of the case
    • import the case
    • import the mag holder once again / or add a volume the shape you want
    • use “difference()” between the case+mag holder and the complex hole shape to clear the hole

    you can enhance this process by creating a negative shape of the buttons holes