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Is your scan printable?

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Is your scan printable?

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- [Instructor] This will be a quick video talking about printability. Now this is not printable as I said in the previous video, this is still infinitely thin. What this means is that there's a front and a back and although you can see something that looks like an actual object it is infinitely thing therefore, 3D print software does not know how to print it. So just for purposes of this video, we need to show what is a printable model. So, it doesn't say much in this shader mode, 'cause we're looking at all of the colors, both shining through the back there and through the front. So I'm going to click on shaders and go to the mesh mixer shader, which is the second one over and drag that into the scene. Now we see gray is marked as front, pink is marked as back. As just a very, very general statement, what we're going to be doing is segmenting the part that we want. So what I'm going to be is just going like this and inverting it. And we're just going to be assuming that this little…

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