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Why not use your slicer to generate support structures?

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Why not use your slicer to generate support structures?

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- [Instructor] So, as you know, whenever you 3D print a model, at home, you need to use a slicer. So, the slicer is a piece of software that translates the 3D model into the hundreds of thousands or millions of lines of, essentially, text, that tell your 3D printer how many pulses of the motor it needs to do, how many pulses of the extruder needs to happen in order to put out a certain amount of material. Essentially, it translates a 3D model into motor code that is run by your 3D printer to actually make a 3D print. So why wouldn't you just use the support generator on your slicer instead of what Meshmixer offers? Well, here would be an example. This is the piece of bamboo that I have in some other videos, that I used 123D Catch to create a model of. So, not the best piece of 3D print scanning in the world, but it's a really good example for what we'll be talking about today. Now, I could certainly put this into my slicing software, and it would generate support structures. So what…

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