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Prototyping, part 7: Exporting for 3D printing

Prototyping, part 7: Exporting for 3D printing - Rhino Tutorial

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Prototyping, part 7: Exporting for 3D printing

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- [Instructor] In our final prototyping lesson, we export our closed Rhino model for 3D printing. However, I have developed one extra step in the process that makes it virtually guaranteed your file will be perfectly printable. Little background first. When you go outside to a 3D print, you're going to be making a mesh and then saving that as an .STL file format. So this is different than the NURBS you're familiar with. This is easy to change and modify and edit. The mesh is pretty much the end of the line. You use it just for printing. So you never want to edit this guy. Now, I'll give you an example if you don't believe me. We're going to zoom in here and I'm going to turn the control points on. You can do this button called Points On or F10 for the shortcut, PC only. These points are so closely spaced, if I were to move one out, you could see why I don't even want to try. So let's Control + Z to get that guy back in…

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