From the course: Rhino: Modeling for 3D Printing
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Fine tuning your mesh - Rhino Tutorial
From the course: Rhino: Modeling for 3D Printing
Fine tuning your mesh
- [Instructor] In the past, when I 3D printed from Rhino, I would just export my file as an SDL and hope my mesh model turned out okay when I imported it into my 3D printing software. This isn't the most efficient way to go about this though. Rhino has a ton of helpful tools that can fine tune the mesh version of your model before you export it. So, let's take a look at some of those. To convert your model into a mesh before you export it, all you have to do is select what you'd like to turn into a mesh, and type in mesh. Into the command line, hit enter. All right, and by default, we usually get the simplified version of our settings, and we have the choice of going with fewer polygons or more polygons. But at the moment, I can't really see what my measure is going to look like with these different settings. So what we can do is hit preview. And now we have a visualization of what our mesh surface is going to look like.…
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