How to Make a Cute Cat Skeleton

Today I will teach you how to make a cute cat skeleton!

For this lesson you will need:

Blender - Download — blender.org

Any Prusa 3D Printer

Two different color PLA spools from any company

After you downloaded blender, you have to open it. When opened drag your mouse over the default cube, camera, and light and press X on your keyboard and you will have an option to delete the objects. Hit the button. Next press 7 on your keyboard. Afterwards press Shift A, there should be a button that popped up. Locate the function called Image and then press Reference, then import the image of the cats you download from here. After press Shift A again, pick the button called Mesh and the then pick a button called plane. Now select the plane you just made and press tab. This should lead you to the edit mode. You can see your plane has four dots on each end. Select one of the dots and then press shift and select the other two dots leaving one not selected. Now right click the dots you selected and find a function called Delete Vertices. Finally duplicate the vertices 36 times using Shift D And that is it with the preparation.

Select the vertices you just made and press G on your keyboard and drag the dot to the end of the cat's edge. Now press Tab if you are not in edit mode. Next select the dot and press E. If you drag your mouse you can see a line is dragging with the cursor on the screen. Press your mouse on the edge of the cat's body but not too far away from the other vertices. Now do this step couple time all around the cat's body. Make the outline as low-poly as possible but not too much. When you get to the last vertices that you need to connect you need to select the two vertices and press F. It should make a line between the two vertices. After you finish the previous steps, you have to select all of the vertices of the cat body and press F. If the model gets all glitchy you need to delete all of the cat's body. But leave only one vertices

left. And then remake the cat's body again. Make it more low-poly this time. Now use your other 36 vertices you have and make all of the bones. Proseed to the next step.

In this step you will be adding holes into your cat's bones and solidifying the model. After you made all of the bones you have to make the holes in the skull and the innominate bone. Use one of your last four vertices and draw it around the cat's eye and at the end press F like I taught you. Then do this step for the other eye, nose and innominate bone. Now select all of the bones. But not the cat's body and holes. Press J, this should join all of the bones together. Now select all of the holes. Press J, this also joined the holes together. On the right there is a toolbar. You need to find something with a little wrench on the picture. Once you find it press the function Add Modifier and look for a button called Solidify in the Generate section. When you find it click it. Now your holes are solidified. Change the holes thickness using the Thickness scroll bar. Make the thickness 1.00. Press Control A to apply the modifier. Next press G Z and move the holes in the middle of the bones. Now select the bones and open the Modifier function again. In the generate section find something called Boolean. Press it. Now select a little pin tool and press it onto the holes. Press Control A to apply the modifier. Now press X when selected the holes to delete them. Next solidify the body of the cat. Make the thickness at least 1.5 and then apply. After, solidify the bones and apply. Make their thickness at least 1.00. Now select the bones and press G Z to move them onto the cat's body. But do not make the bones stick out on the other side. Finally select the bones and the body and press J to join them together.

You are finished with your model. Now you need to export it and print it. In blender go to the top left corner. Press a button called File and then press a function called Export. After, you need to click a function called Export in STL. Press it. Now open PrusaSlicer. On the top press the button with a Cube and a Plus on it. Import the file you just exported. You need to change all of the options you want for you cat. Also be sure to scale down your cat because it might be too large. If you want it in one color, you can export the G-code and print it now. But if you want it multicolored you need to read the next steps. Once you made all of you settings slice the model. On the left you can see a little scroll button. Try using it and you can see how your model will be printed layer. Using the scroller pick the spot where the bones start printing and press the + button that is connected to the scroller. Now you can print your model!

You are now done with the model!!! Good Job!

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Happy Printing!!!