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Service bureaus for color printing

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Service bureaus for color printing

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- This final video talks about how to upload your color prints for color 3D printing. Inside of Meshmixer you have some export options, but, essentially, just go up to File, to Export, and then chose any one of a number of options that your online 3D printing service bureau would be able to print in, but, generally, OBJ is a good one. OBJ format right here, and I exported it as Nickface.obj. Inside of that, let me go in and show you this one, bring it up here, and I'll delete this. What is created is your obj file, as well as any of the image files that your image has, so this is how the color is created, and a material file. In order to upload these onto online service bureaus, you need all of these in one file. I'm going to select all of these and just zip these up. It's creating a zip file right here. I'm going to name this something a little bit more intelligible, NickFace.zip, and then go on to an online service bureau like Shapeways or Sculpteo and upload this zip file that has…

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