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Typical errors found in online models

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Typical errors found in online models

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- [Instructor] Okay, so you've gone to all of these websites and you've found these cool models that you want to download and start using in Meshmixer and 3D print. And are all models the same? Absolutely not. This is the GoPro model from Thingiverse, the light diffuser that the GoPro goes inside of here. And because this is from Thingiverse, you are a little bit more assured of having a good model than downloads from other sites. So first off, we're in shaders right here in the Meshmixer shader, and there's no blue outlines to show open boundaries; there's no red to show problems. If we go into analysis to inspector, right here, nothing pops up. There are no pins that pop out of the model showing places where the model has errors. So that is pretty good, but if I press the W key for wireframe, we can switch and see that there are a lot of areas on this with very very large triangles. And Meshmixer does not like large triangles all that much. So we would need to go in and work with…

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