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Things to look for when first loading up your 3D scan

Things to look for when first loading up your 3D scan - Meshmixer Tutorial

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Things to look for when first loading up your 3D scan

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- [Instructor] Let's talk a little bit how you evaluate a scan that you just brought into Meshmixer for any problems you may need to fix later on. When you first bring in a scan into Meshmixer, it will come up with blue lines around it. What these mean are that it's open boundaries. Without going too much into it, these lines represent an open face where you have a front side and a back side. The way I'm going to show that, I'm going to go to the Meshmixer Shader right here, and drag that into my scene. This takes away the color for the moment but it shows that the back is this pink color and the front is this gray color. If we were to feed this into a 3-D printing program, it would see the front of this just fine, but because this is the back and the front with no boundary in-between, the 3-D printer software would throw up it's hands and say I have no idea how to print this. If I press the W key to go into wire frame and zoom in right here, this is essentially a completely…

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