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Final steps for printability - Meshmixer Tutorial
From the course: Meshmixer Essential Training
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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Introduction to the fun of 3D scanning1m 33s
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Things to look for when first loading up your 3D scan5m 59s
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Is your scan printable?2m 42s
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Fixing easy printability problems4m 31s
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Fixing difficult 3D scan problems: Starting off17m
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Fixing difficult 3D scan problems: Starting with cleanup2m 6s
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Fixing difficult 3D scan problems: Hole filling6m 40s
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Fixing difficult 3D scan problems: Thickening4m 13s
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Final steps for printability3m 26s
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Service bureaus for color printing4m 59s
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