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- [Instructor] Moving through the various tabs available on the toolbar down on the bottom we now come across the tools tab. This has a few options here and the ones that I want to focus on are here and the 3D printing. So starting from left to right we have insert picture, material browser, measure, mass properties, enable/disable draft analysis, update content library, 3D print, and fab connect. We're not going to look at the content library or the fab connect, but we are going to look at the rest of them. Starting with insert picture, if you click on that simply enough you choose a file, a picture file that you already have on your computer, click open, select a face to put it on, and you can then lock the aspect ratio, rotate the part, flip the part, or add some level of transparency. Hitting accept inserts the picture into your model. Moving along down the side, we can also add a material. So if I select material browser, it pops up a new tab with the material browser in it. You…

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