Reposing STL models is easy with this free tool 

This is going to save me about 40.000 hours of rigging and tearing my hair out 🤩

Gordon Bennett. That's the most well laid-out and thoroughly explained method of reposing solid STLs I've ever seen. Thanks so much for sharing!

well, bloody hell, that tut was probably the best I've seen; I'am about 6 months of fiddling with Blender (nothing serious) and mainly use it to hack off bits from 1 stl so I can print a different arm and physicaly glue it on for a different pose...Man, you just opened Pandora's stl box! Brilliant

I've been making miniatures in blender for 4 years, and I didn't know you can use the pose brush with face sets for better results, and the kinematic trick is awesome! thank you very much

Holy crap- this is the single best tutorial I've EVER seen for Blender. What a game changer. This should be a pinned link on ANY 3-D modeling forum.

Bruh. This is so much better than rigging. I spent so much time rigging this rat I had sculpted so I can have different poses now I can just do this. You're the man!

This method blew my mind!

I had no idea this could be done! This will definitely help add variety when you want to make large armies/warbands without identical poses! Thanks so much! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Well, this is incredible. Rigging terrifies me. This is something I certainly want to practice.

Holy crap dude, you're the very first tutorial I've watched for Blender that actually has clicked. Thank you so much! I'm subscribed now, and will share your videos as much as possible!

Awesome video. Re-posing is something I've wondered about, but figured rigging was necessary. This is so helpful.

That was one of the clearest video lessons on posing in Blender I've seen. Thank you so much!

YES!!!!!! This is exactly what Ive been looking for! I can't wait to try it! Thank you SO MUCH for sharing this!

Wow - so easy when you know which of Blender's tools to use. Thank you for explaining this so clearly - I'm definitely going to give it a go.

cudos sir, this is ridiculously close to what I needed right now for around 40k or so reasons.

Duuuuude! This is an AWESOME video! I had no idea you could do that so easily in blender! This will change my 3d-printing forever! Thank you SO MUCH!

This is a blessing and a curse. Fantastic tip, I'm really glad it was suggested to me.

Amazing! I can't believe this is a thing you can just do in Blender with a brush! Really clear and concise video. Straight to the point. Thank you for sharing this!

Just did this to a basic mini, and couldn't stop saying "Oh wow.." this is a legitimately amazing skill to have in my arsenal, and THANK YOU.

Wow I never looked at the pose brush! This is dramatically easier than rigging and weight painting!

Wow. Im just getting into WH and am gonna start looking into kitbashing and this is the best thing ive seen for making some of those crazy model's for cusotms... Thank you. Clear and Concise. This is how all tutorials should go

By the gods, this is amazing. Thank you for the tutorial.

Amazing video. Perfect combination of helpful information that is explained well in a concise manner.

Buddy your videos is amazing! This is just what i was looking for! Thank you for creating this great content!

Really brilliant tutorial. You covered all necessary information without wasting time and it's really well delivered. Keep it up! You now have a new subscriber 🎉

That’s so incredibly useful! Would love to see more on kit bashing and combining parts

OH - MY - GOOOOOOD!!! This is astonishing!! My brain just got blown up!! THANK YOU!

Bloody hell. Instant subscription!

You are the gift that keeps on giving!

What a fantastic tutorial. Very informative, great explanations of keystrokes/menus, but still relatively concise. Definitely subscribing to your channel mate.

Most helpful video I’ve ever seen on blender. Great job and certainly gives me the confidence to have a try myself!

Absolute gamechanger. Liked, subscribed, favorited.

This is just about the clearest and easy to follow Blender tutorial i've ever watched! Definitely have a new subscriber!

Thanks, this is one of the best how to videos out there, even I have finally figured out how to use it to change the pose of the figures I use in my model cars. Thank you very much :)

i can't wait to try this! Straight to the point with elaborate explanations! Love it!

Wow! One of the best Blender tutorials covering a feature I've seen! I've been working with blender for about 5 years now and even though i rarely need to sculpt, the pose brush has always been a mystery to me. This video changed that, so thanks a lot!

This is a great tutorial. Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

This is such a great tutorial. Clear, shows all the necessary steps, and remains to the point. Thank you! Absolutely awesome!

🤯 seriously just blew my mind with this one. I've been doing it so so SOOOOO much harder than this.

Awesome. Thanks for this. I took a 3d class about a year ago or more but couldnt really figure out proper rigging (at least for more complex pieces) without tons of issues. Definitely gonna give this a try with some free statue figures ive got saved on my computer

Your direction on this is exquisite! Thank you so much for taking the time to do so!

If anyone is like me, and can't find the options and menu items being used... check your version of Blender. Almost everything looked and acted the same, but there was not 'face sets' option when I was in the sculpting tool. Upgraded to most recent version, and it's there. I guess this is a fairly recent feature.

Been trying to reuse previously sculpted limbs to make my work a bit more time efficient recently. Perfect timing to see this video because it's a lot quicker than all the other methods I've tried for tweaking posing to avoid obvious repetition. Keep up the great work!

This was so awesome to see. I havent done any 3d modelling since I dabbled as a teenager and have been on the threshold of taking up 3d printing. Seeing how doable this is with existing files was so cool. Thank you!

Man, this is a game changer for me! Thank you so much!

That was amazing. It was a video which made me to try Blender at last. I'm done with Meshmixer ;)

Game changing. Love this tutorial!

Thank you soo much for this vid, need to try it out. This opens a ton of possibilities. 10/10 would watch again 😜

Probably one of the most useful tutorials I've ever seen . Thank you so much!!!

This was amazingly useful. I have struggled so hard on other projects and this was always an option!

This is such a great video! I've been using blender for ages and never knew about this, I've been posing my minis with rigging all this time. This is gonna be a life saver

FUUUUUUUK. Why didn’t you release this months ago? Omg all the time spent rigging. Oh well I learned a lot about rigging and weights. Thanks for the video and saving me more time and teaching all of us something new on blender.

Hoły moly, this is one of the best made and useful tuts I’ve seen in long time.

As somebody who has worked in 3D modeling for years, the fact that you waited until the end to go over the lasso tool and seam smoothing got my blood pressure REAL high. Great tutorial tho. Digital kitbashing should really be more widespread in the broader 3D community.

I hope you will see this after a couple months. I found this video and wanted to give it a try. I have some of OnePageRules 3D print models and they do have the unfortunate issue of limited poses. Even though they offer split parts, the parts are designed to only go together one way. Note I am 100% brand new to Blender and have no experience with it elsewise, so the problem I describe below may be easy for someone used to Blender, but not to me, and I apologize for that. I took one model's "combined" file (the model fully assembled in one STL) and threw it into Blender and noticed that when I go to Sculpt mode, and "Face Sets->Initialize Face Sets->by UV Seam" (notably without making any further changes after importing the STL file), Blender recognizes the separate pieces as if I had input the model piece by piece. Most notably, the arm, as I was trying to do exactly what you did in this video. This was true for multiple files across multiple army sets. In object mode, Blender sees the whole model as a single object, and I can manipulate it as such (move, rotate, etc). When I go to sculpt mode, UV Seam, and select the pose brush, I'm now not able to select "Rotation origin" by Face Sets, then rotate at the shoulders. As Blender sees it as a separate part, the rotation point is seen as the center of the "arm object", or around the elbow, and therefore when rotated, it separates the shoulder from the body. Amusingly, despite the two parts being entirely separate, when I switch back to object mode, Blender still sees it as one single object. I am able to create a seam, just as you did, around the elbow, and that works fine, though limits my poseability. Is there a way to combine the object so, before creating my own UV seams, it sees the object as one single, contiguous piece so that I can then create the seam at the shoulder? I have tried importing the file into Lychee and re-exporting, I have tried importing the individual parts into Microsoft 3D Builder and exporting as a single piece. None make any difference and Blender continues to identify the separate pieces. If you have a separate video on this, a link to that would be ideal. Thank you.

You're the man bud, this was incredibly helpful.

Wow. That´s great. That makes miniature printing much more fascinating. THX

This is such a helpful tutorial! Gonna have to try this out!

OK- this is awesome. Now, when can I pay for your classes!! But really- thank you so much for such a clear and concise tutorial!

thanks for the great tutorial! blender is so mighty!

just what i need..... thanks, great tutorial well and easy explain... this is gold.

Awesome, this is exactly what I've been looking for

This is absolutely amazing as a tutorial. Thank you so much

Great video, I do a lot of printing and often think I’d like to change a few poses here and there, but I find blender almost a different language, this is the best video I’ve seen to help people use it better

Game changer. Thanks for sharing this!!!

thanks a lot for the video, I didn't knew how to do it until now

This is great thanks. I was just mirroring models when I had 2 the same (I mostly do Blood Bowl Teams), but this is an absolute game changer.

This is amazing. Thanks for showing us this.

Oh my god, this is so helpful! I have been trying to brute force the pose brush for so long to get it to do this. Thank you so much for this video.

This is exactly what I needed! I've recently just learned about separating loose parts for kitbashing. Adding this to my arsenal will make my kitbashes better yet. Thanks so much!

That's pretty cool, I've been reposing models in Blender for a while, but not using this method. One thing that I've found reasonably easy is to rig the model with bones, but only rig the parts you want to move (so if you only want to move a shoulder and elbow, you only need to add maybe 3 bones) and use the automatic weights. But on some models that doesn't work well, depends whether the automatic weights can figure out what you're trying to do.

Wicked tutorial, I have never really done anything in your videos I just like watching them, but this will definitely come in useful and is something I have wondered about, great work, thanks

Fantastic tutorial! One thing that always bothers me with 3d prints is having a bunch of repeat poses, so this is super great.

I never worked with blender as I'm more of a parametric CAD guy, but that looks so easy, that even I can do it. Thanks for that nice tutorial! Definatly going to use that if I find a model I want to repose.

This is amazing I will be able to repose a lot of STLs

Instant sub! You lifesaver! THANK YOU!

Thank you bro, saved me this morning

got my sub in 3 minutes, great stuff!

Perfect timing! Just got some Tyranid Models, which I thought could use some variety in their poses! :D

Thousand thanks for taking the time and effort of making these videos and sharing Your knowledge... This is "wild", Blender is such a literal "Swiss Army Knife" of tools and techniques that it's impossible to know even a small fraction of all You can do with it. And this "technique" is imho far from only for people "working" with STLs but rather something every "3D generalist" should have "in their virtual tool belt". Best regards.

excellent job illustrating almost endless editing capabilities!!

WOW, I use the pose tool often in my own work but i have never thought about reposing other minis.. this is a game changer. You opened up so many possibilities!! thank you as always!!

BEST blender video ever. SUPER useful!!!

WOW this is such a game changer for me thanks.

Awesome trick, awesome artisan.

Very good tutorial mate. Cheers!

Amazing stuff. Thanks for taking the time to make this.

Ok you just make a second attempt at Blender worth my while. Thank you so much for pointing out the shown keypresses.

You sir, just made my day! This is great, and will help me so much in the future!

Excellent tutorial. Well done.

This is an automatic Subscribe. Holy shit well done.

Excellent tutorial, thank you!

Extremely cool, thanks!

this ia exactly what i was looking for. i have some stl's of some old minis. but since they are only scans from old metal minis, they are a bit bent and warped. with this i can bring them back in shape. thx!

This is so cool. I have always struggled with rigging and it is no different in Blender, though most of what I do these days is for printing rather than game models, and this is the perfect way to get good pose control without all of the fuss of rigging for things that don't really need it.

Holy shit! MY KING! This is god like

You just really ticked off every digital sculptor who makes a series of models with only slight differences to them and charges a lot of money. ;) I don't use the face sets stuff in my work, so I never bothered to investigate them. This is a great shortcut to modifying models. Although, it is fun to rig things and make them do the booty-wiggle. If I ever get my act together and finish sculpting my base character, I'll have to share it with you as a thank-you.

I love sculpting and making rendered scenes of characters or creatures, this is so helpful and exactly what I need, thank you. Retopology and rigging is so time consuming and useless for just making still images as this is so much quicker

Amazing tutorial. This is wonderful for people who are intimidated by Blender

This could save the Sunder mini I've been working on. the legs would rig up fine, but the arms would cause the torso weapons to move with them.