From the course: SOLIDWORKS: 3D Printed Product Enclosure
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Export your model for 3D printing - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: 3D Printed Product Enclosure
Export your model for 3D printing
- [Instructor] The enclosure is now finished. If you like, we can add some more details or you can adjust some of the sizes and features. But well done for creating this entire model from nothing. Now that we've finished modeling, we want to actually print these files ourselves. And to do that, we need to export the files. Firstly, open the part that you want to export. I'll demonstrate with this top part, click on it and press open part. And at this stage it's always worth just having a quick-double check of your part. Making sure everything looks correct. That looks good. To file, save as. And you'll probably get a warning pop up. This is because SolidWorks thinks we going to change the file name. But we're actually just going to change the file type. We can ignore this and press save as. Then just keep the file name the same. And change save as type, from part to STL. The vast majority of printers use this STL…
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