Your minis and projects

Everything you make is in the list on the left of Mimic's window. This page covers finding a mini, what its page shows, grouping minis into projects, and renaming, moving and deleting them.

The list of minis

The list on the left is headed Minis. Each mini shows its picture, its name, and a line under it:

The line says	It means
32 mm · 0.4 mm nozzle	It's ready: its size and the nozzle it was made for
Being made…	It's being made now. A resize says Resizing…
Waiting (2nd)	It's waiting its turn in the queue
Picture ready to check	Its picture was redrawn with a change, and waits for you (see Versions)
Not finished	It stopped before it was done. Its page has Try Again

Newest first, unless you choose otherwise. The button at the bottom right of the list sorts and filters it:

• Sort By: Date Made, Name or Size (tallest first).
• Show: All Minis, Characters, Objects or Unfinished Minis. While a filter is on, the button is filled in, so you can tell some minis are hidden.

The same choices are in the View menu.

The search field at the top of the list (Edit → Find → Find…, Cmd+F) finds minis by name and by words in their descriptions, and ignores capitals and accents: elodie finds "Élodie".

A mini's page

Click a mini to open its page. The 3D view fills the middle: drag to turn it, scroll to zoom. See Printing and exporting for everything it does.

The toolbar has:

• More: Copies…, Resize This Mini…, Edit & Make Again…, Export for Virtual Tabletop… and Show in Finder.
• Open in …: opens the mini in your slicer. The button names it, like Open in Bambu Studio. It stands out once the mini is finished, and is greyed out until then. See Printing and exporting.
• Show Details / Hide Details (Ctrl+Cmd+I): the details panel on the right.

The details panel has:

• Size: what the mini was made at (Character height, or Longest side for anything else; Base; Nozzle), and what its print file measures (Height with base, Footprint). Filament is roughly how much it takes, like "Up to 4 g · 1.3 m" of 1.75 mm PLA. That's for a solid print, so infill makes a big mini take less.
• Previews: the picture it was made from, and views from the front, left, right and back. Click one to open it in Quick Look. See Printing and exporting.
• Versions: its other versions, when it has some. See Versions.
• Made from: the picture or description, Variation number, 3D model, Grey sculpt, whether it's a Cartoon, and when it was made. A mini made from a description has Copy Description, to use it again.
• Print tips for a 0.4 mm nozzle (or the mini's nozzle): the slicer settings to use, with Copy Settings. See Printing and exporting.

If print prep left a part out, or the figure's bottom reaches past its base, a warning sits over the 3D view until you resize the mini or make it again.

A mini that isn't ready has a different page:

• Being made: which step it's on and how long it has left, with Show Progress.
• Waiting to be made: its place in the queue and when it should be ready.
• This mini didn't finish: why, with Try Again and Report a Problem….
• Check the picture: a picture redrawn with your change, with Draw Again and Build Shape. See Versions.

Group minis into projects

A project is a folder of minis, for a party, a warband or a set of chess pieces. Each project is a real folder in your minis folder, so Finder shows the same grouping. Projects don't go inside other projects.

Make a project: press New Project at the bottom of the list, or choose File → New Project… (Shift+Cmd+N). Name it and press Create.

Put minis in it:

• Drag minis onto the project's name, or onto any mini in it. An empty project says Drag minis here.
• Or right-click a mini → Move to Project, and pick the project. New Project… there makes one and moves the mini into it.
• To take a mini out of its project, drag it onto Unsorted, or choose Move to Project → Unsorted.

New Mini puts a new mini in the project of the mini you're looking at, and you can pick another. Right-click a project → New Mini in This Project… starts one there.

Click the arrow beside a project's name to fold it away. Beside its name is roughly how much filament all its minis need, like ≈ 23 g filament.

Right-click a project's name for the rest:

Choose	To
New Mini in This Project…	Make a mini that goes straight into it
Open Together in …	Open all its minis in your slicer at once, on one bed (see Printing and exporting)
Show in Finder	See the project's folder
Resize All…	Give every mini in it a new size at once (see Sizes and bases)
Rename Project…	Give it a new name
Delete Project…	Remove the project

Delete Project… asks what to do with its minis. Keep Minis moves them to Unsorted. Delete All moves them to the Trash with the project. The project's folder always goes to the Trash, never deleted for good, so you can put anything back from there.

Note

A mini that's being made or waiting in the queue can't move to another project until it's made. A project can't be renamed while one of its minis is being made, or deleted while one is being made or waiting.

Select several minis

Select several minis the Mac way: Cmd-click to add one, Shift-click for a run of them, or Cmd+A for every mini in view. The page then says how many are selected, with what you can do to all of them.

Right-click any of them, or use the Mini menu, to:

• Open Together in … your slicer, on one bed
• print Copies… of each
• Show in Finder
• Resize 3 Minis… (or however many): one size for all of them
• Move to Project
• Move to Trash

You can also drag them onto a project together. A search or a filter unselects the minis it hides, so nothing out of sight is moved or deleted with the rest.

Rename a mini

Right-click it → Rename… (or Mini → Rename…), type the new name and press Rename. Edit → Undo gives it back its old name. A mini that's waiting in the queue or being made can be renamed once it's made.

Names can have capitals, accents, spaces and other alphabets: "Élodie", "D&D Bard", "Дракон". Each name is used once across all your minis and projects, whatever the capitals.

Move minis to the Trash

Right-click a mini → Move to Trash, or select it and press Cmd+Delete. Several selected minis go together. Mimic doesn't ask first: Edit → Undo (Cmd+Z) puts them all back.

• A mini that's being made stays, and Mimic says so. Move it to the Trash once it's done.
• A mini waiting in the queue asks first. Undo can put it back from the Trash, but not back in the queue.

Minis always go to the Trash, never deleted for good, so you can also put them back from there in Finder.

Find a mini's files

Right-click a mini → Show in Finder (Option+Cmd+R). Finder opens with its print file selected, or its folder if it isn't made yet. Right-click a project's name → Show in Finder for the project's folder.

Your minis are kept in Documents → Mimic. To keep them somewhere else, choose Settings → General → Change… (see Settings). What's in each mini's folder is in Where your files are.

Changes made in Finder or Terminal

The list keeps up by itself. When a mini or project is added, removed or renamed in your minis folder, by Finder, by mimic in Terminal or by another Mimic, the list changes too. It also refreshes whenever you come back to Mimic.

You can rename or copy a mini's folder in Finder. Mimic takes it over under the new name, so it can still be renamed, moved and moved to the Trash like any other. A print file you drop into a mini's folder is left as it is: Mimic only takes over print files it made.

A mini's two names

A mini has the name you gave it, which Mimic shows everywhere, and a folder name made from it in plain letters. Its files and the queue go by the folder name.

You type	Its folder
Élodie	elodie
Дракон	drakon
Straße	strasse
D&D Bard	d-d-bard
🐉	mini

In Terminal you can use either: mimic info "Élodie" and mimic info elodie find the same mini, and mimic list shows both. See Mimic from a terminal.

If you rename a mini's folder in Finder, the folder wins: Mimic shows the folder's new name.