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3D printing - Blender Tutorial

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3D printing

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- [David] 3D printing is an exciting new way to realize your Blender creations into the real world. In this week's Blenders Tips, Tricks, and Techniques, I'm going to show you a new add-on to help you create awesome 3D prints. Now first, let's enable it by going to File, User Preferences, Add-Ons, type in 3D print, and turning it on. Now let's go to Save and let's exit out. Now let's print something more exciting than a cube. So I'm going to hit A and delete everything. And I'm going to leave my 3D print tab alone for right now because I'm going to make a monkey in a cylinder. Now let's make this cylinder a little flat and then let's set our monkey on it. A little bit of rotating, a little bit of scaling, just put it right on there. I'm going to make sure that he's intersecting all parts. Or she, technically, since it's called Suzanne, okay. Now, there's a few things that you need to know about 3D printing. Things have to be watertight, you need an escape hole, it needs to be hollow…

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