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If you purchase an STL file of a multi-part model, I presume it's easy for a printer to just print the parts you want? Like if i just wanted 20 arms instead of 20 entire figures, say. Again, this is presuming that said parts are already set to be printed separately; I'm not talking about custom cutting up the model.

In general when a model is parted into different parts the presupports provided for that model will also come for each individual part.

So yes if you wanted to print only select parts you could print those as many times as you wanted.


Now rarely, but it still happens, some creators might release their presupports as a single block instead of individual. It's honestly rare enough that its not the norm and most of the time its just a case of opening the grouped file and removing the parts you don't want and copy/pasting more of the ones you do. A bit of a faff but not a barrier.

 Talking Banana wrote:
If you purchase an STL file of a multi-part model, I presume it's easy for a printer to just print the parts you want? Like if i just wanted 20 arms instead of 20 entire figures, say. Again, this is presuming that said parts are already set to be printed separately; I'm not talking about custom cutting up the model.

Yes, where the file includes separate parts you can choose which parts to print. We don't block parts together for exactly this reason.