In this example I've unwrapped an object with a large amount of faces and set all the faces to overlap, as you can see it results in a white background. The second cause of this may be that we have many overlapping faces, while the UV Editor geometry is slightly transparent if we have too many overlapping faces it will cause the background to be completely covered.

This first cause of these may be similar to the Image Texture not being visible, make sure you linked the correct Image in the UV Editor. The UV Editor background is whiteĪnother issue we could have is that the background is showing as white, there can be a couple reasons for this. Wed 11:48 am Did you try running the non-manifold and self-intersecting checks in S3D If those find errors, then you still have things you need to fix with the mesh. In fact, it is quite likely that it will be used by multiple image textures. brian442 Posts: 1243 Joined: Mon 10:35 am Re: Model not showing up correctly in prepare print view. Pros: High-quality software for 3D printing with advanced features Comprehensive set of tools for slicing and optimizing 3D models Customizable print parameters. We can use the UV map with any image texture in the shader editor. The image in the background doesn't have anything to do with the UV map either other than being used as reference. Related content: The complete beginners guide to Blender nodes, Eevee, Cycles and PBRĬlick the folder icon to browse for an existing image on your hard drive or press the new button to create a new image to use as the background. Simply click the image icon to get a dropdown showing all images available in the blendfile Chanses are that you have already loaded the image into your blendfile because you added it to your material in an image texture node.

Simplify 3d not showing whole model