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Orientation

Orientation - Meshmixer Tutorial

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Orientation

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- [Instructor] This video is on the orientation tool. I have the default bunny that I got by going to File, to Import Bunny here, but since this is dealing with support structures for 3D printing, we want to make sure this is a manifold model. I'm going to go to Analysis, to Inspector, and just say Auto Repair All. There we go. Now the bunny is fully manifold, and we can do some support structure orientation studies. Let's go to Analysis, to Orientation. Now you'll see something flash by quickly here. Analyzing 2,694 orientations, and we get this. There are arrows pointing up from the bunny in different directions that show SVA. That relates to strength, support volume, and support area. Meshmixer has said that this is probably the best one, and what this means is, it is the highest strength, the lowest volume, and the lowest area. If you click on any of these other arrows, the orientation of your model changes. You might not think that it changes because you can rotate around, but if…

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