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Stability

Stability - Meshmixer Tutorial

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Stability

- [Narrator] This video is on the stability tool. This again is also an informational tool. You click on analysis to stability. So what this shows you is, based on where the object is touching the bottom build plate, or essentially the plane if we go to view and show grid, you can see that based on where the model is touching the bottom grid, where the center of mass is. Now there is a few good things about this. The stability tool will give you the volume of cubic millimeters, cubic inches, cubic centimeters based on what you're using in the analysis units dimensions. So if you change this to centimeters and convert it, if you go into the stability tool, this is now in cubic centimeters. So this is a great place if you are uploading things for 3-D printing to online vendors, they usually charge by cubic centimeters. So this is where you would see the cubic centimeters in your object. So it shows that the center of mass is green for this object. That's great. So that means that it…

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