How to Design a Water Palette

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How to Design a Water Palette

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Learn how to use the cuboids and copy offset tool to make a personalised palette for 3D printing and use for painting in SelfCAD


How to Design a Water Palette


Learn how to design a water palette using SelfCAD, a powerful 3D modeling and CAD  software. SelfCAD serves as a versatile tool, empowering enthusiasts and architects alike to reimagine and customize the water palette process. The interactive tutorial for this article can be accessed here; https://www.selfcad.com/tutorials/6n6o4b2c5j5r2k415lc3d2l731f1m1y5p2y2


To access the software, visit https://www.selfcad.com/


From the 3D shapes category on the Toolbar, choose Cube

Set Width to 200, Height to 10


Click to finalize Cube

From the 3D shapes category on the Toolbar, choose Cube

Set Width to 40, Height to 20, Depth to 65, Position y to 2, position z to 12.5

Click to finalize Cube


Click to activate Face Selection

Click on highlighted region to select it


Click Move on the Toolbar

Set y to 6


Click ‘X’ to close Transformation panel

Click highlighted part on selection cube to turn off region selection

From the Tools category on the Toolbar choose Copy offsets

Set x to 50

Set Amount of copies to 3

Click Copy button to create copies


Click ‘X’ to close copy offsets panel

Click Move on the Toolbar

Set x to 0


Click ‘X’ to close Transformation panel

From the Edit Menu on the Top Toolbar choose Group 

From the 3D shapes category on the Toolbar, choose Cube

Set Width to 15, Height to 20, Depth to 25, Position x to -87, Position y to 2, position z to -35

Click to finalize cube


Click to activate face selection

Click on highlighted region to select it

Click Move on the Toolbar

Set y to 6


Click ‘X’ to close Transformation panel

Click highlighted part on selection cube to turn off region selection

From the Tools category on the Toolbar choose Copy offsets

Set x to 20

Set Amount of copies to 8

Click Copy button to create copies


Click ‘X’ to close copy offsets panel

From the Edit Menu on the Top Toolbar choose Group 

From the 3D shapes category on the Toolbar, choose Cylinder

Set Top Radius to 8, Bottom Radius to 6, Height to 30, Position x to 90, position z to -35


Click to finalize Cylinder

From the Edit Menu on the Top Toolbar choose click Select All

Click Stitch & Scoop on the Toolbar 

From the Tool panel choose Difference

Choose group-1, group-2, mesh-16 to subtract

Click to finalize Difference