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Exporting geometry as SAT and STL

Exporting geometry as SAT and STL

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Exporting geometry as SAT and STL

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- [Instructor] Dynamo can write two common 3D geometry file formats. There's stereo lithography or STL, which is most frequently used as a solid model format for 3D printing and rapid prototyping. The other format is ACIS SAT which is a commonly used format in conjunction with Revit's massing tools, for hosting elements like walls, floors, roofs, and curtain systems, to geometry that's imported from other software. Let's start this video by exporting some geometry to STL. The STL data format supports only solids and surfaces, so not any curves, points, or any other data type. Keep in mind though, that if you're creating this STL file with the intention of sending it to a 3D printer, you want to make sure that you're only exporting solid geometry. For this example, I'm only interested in exporting this solid that we generated in a previous video. Before we move any further, we should check and make sure that the geometry we're exporting is either a solid or a surface. We can see from…

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