Thanks to both of you for looking at this, good to see you slashee and Greg, now I have a confession... I was trying to get help from the people here that isn't ultimate related. I know, I'm a criminal, but from my experience, this is the best place for anything 3d printed/model related.
If you guys haven't left yet and are willing to help, great. Now the reason I was making this is pretty goofy, are you aware of those lighters with a long like part so you don't burn yourself? Me and my brother thought it looked like a luger pistol, ngl I am British so I do kinda of share your fear slashee but it's a bit more lenient if you keep it in your house of course.
Finally the problem. I measured the case for the lighter and made it in blender (I hope you know blender), I got a model of the luger off the internet, and realised the detail in it, now when I apply a Boolean modifier to the luger and part of the gun disappeared but not the part I needed, I assumed that was because of the detail of it so it wasn't all one solid model. If you want to know how this looks kinda, here is the Reddit post I made (already not as helpful as here) https://www.reddit.com/r/blender/s/dzUs0n7uI0
You'll kinda see what I mean hopefully.
If you are up for it, respond and I'll give you the file with the 2 parts.
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GregValiant 1,342
I'd print two halves.
Your problem is that it is too nice of a model for FDM. It looks like it was designed right from the CAD drawings. I used Mesh Tools "Split model into parts".
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Slashee_the_Cow 409
Much as that seems to be @GregValiant's solution for everything, I agree for once. If you're just printing regular PLA then use cyanoacrylate (also known as your regular household superglue) to put it together. Sets hella fast and hella strong, so make sure you're lining your halves up as precisely as possible while you're doing it.
And please nobody inform the Australian government I downloaded that model to have a look at it. It's illegal to own something which even looks like a real gun here.
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