Divide model into 4 pieces for 3D printer

scott216 · Post by **scott216** » Mon May 20, 2013 2:13 pm

I'm brand new to Blender. I have a 3D model of some mountain terrain in STL format. I want to print it out on my 3D printer, but I need to divide the model up into small pieces. So I'd like to import the STL into Blender and split it up into 4 pieces then export 4 STL files. How would I do this?

Post by **stiv** » Mon May 20, 2013 6:06 pm

If your data is a mesh, you can use the P key to separate it into parts.

scott216 · Post by **scott216** » Tue May 21, 2013 5:13 am

stiv wrote:If your data is a mesh, you can use the P key to separate it into parts.

Could you give me more details. Pressing P doesn't seem to do anything.