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Final steps for printability

Final steps for printability - Meshmixer Tutorial

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Final steps for printability

- [Man] This final video will have us cleaning this up for 3D printing. It certainly is printable as the way it is now, but let's make it a little tiny bit nicer. And it's a very simple process now that we have a solid model. We can go into the Plane Cut tool, and move the manipulator so that it matches the angle of the face, like this. Now one little trick is while you're moving this manipulator, it moves very gently, or very gradually inside, if you hover on those tic marks it moves at a snapping angle but also if you move your mouse way, way, way, way out here, and I'm holding the left mouse button down. This is such a gradual movement out here, that you can move very, very accurately. If you try to go right toward the center of this and move gradually because of the radius of where your mouse is, you actually end up moving quite a bit. So one trick is, as you're holding down the left mouse button, is to move way out here, and you can move much, much more gradually at the edges of…

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