{"id":11924,"date":"2026-01-20T21:14:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=11924"},"modified":"2026-01-24T12:52:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T17:52:56","slug":"blender-box-trim-not-supported-in-dynamic-topology-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=11924","title":{"rendered":"Blender \u2013 Box Trim Not Supported in Dynamic Topology Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hand-sculpted bases for my chess set before realizing that I wanted them to be <em>very<\/em> identical. So I wanted to &#8220;cut&#8221; the hand-sculpted base off of the figure and replace it with a programmatic one. Except I kept getting this error using box trim &#8212; Not supported in dynamic topology mode.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"617\" height=\"577\" class=\"wp-image-11925\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/word-image-11924-1.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/word-image-11924-1.png 617w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/word-image-11924-1-300x281.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Switch to a drawing brush and <em>uncheck<\/em> Dynamic Topology box<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1592\" height=\"171\" class=\"wp-image-11926\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/word-image-11924-2.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/word-image-11924-2.png 1592w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/word-image-11924-2-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/word-image-11924-2-1024x110.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/word-image-11924-2-768x82.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/word-image-11924-2-1536x165.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/word-image-11924-2-750x81.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1592px) 100vw, 1592px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then switch back to box trim and it actually <em>trims<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"455\" height=\"514\" class=\"wp-image-11927\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/word-image-11924-3.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/word-image-11924-3.png 455w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/word-image-11924-3-266x300.png 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And then, of course, you need to remember to turn dynamic topography <em>back on<\/em> for the drawing tools to <em>draw<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hand-sculpted bases for my chess set before realizing that I wanted them to be very identical. So I wanted to &#8220;cut&#8221; the hand-sculpted base off of the figure and replace it with a programmatic one. Except I kept getting this error using box trim &#8212; Not supported in dynamic topology mode. Switch to a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2163],"tags":[2158],"class_list":["post-11924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blender-3d-printing","tag-blender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11928,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11924\/revisions\/11928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}