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Exporting for 3D printing - Rhino Tutorial
From the course: Rhino 5 for Mac Essential Training
Exporting for 3D printing
- [Instructor] So, we prepped our model for 3D printing, and, in this video, we're gonna cover the process of exporting from Rhino to a format that a 3D printer can understand. Right now, our model is all made up of NURBS objects, and that is not a format that a 3D printer can understand. We need to convert these into mesh objects and export them, usually in a format called an STL file. Unlike NURBS objects, which are infinitely mathematically smooth, mesh objects are faceted, so they're made up of individual flat, triangular faces. And the challenge with exporting for 3D printing is preserving as much detail in your model, preserving all those important design features, and surface features, while not building in too much information into the file. So let's go ahead and take a look at the mesh export settings. I'm gonna zoom out here, and just do a crossing selection to grab all of the objects that we'd like to sense as our 3D print. From the File menu, I'll select Exports Selected…
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