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Calculating volume and surface area

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Calculating volume and surface area

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- Another useful figure for 3D printing is the ability to calculate volume and surface area, this can inform how much material the object will use or how much might it cost to get it electroplate for example so let's take a look, now there's two main thing you need to be aware of before run the volume and surface area calculation. First, you need to make sure that the model is water tight for calculating volume anyway. And what that means is the model has to be a closed surface. So, if we rotate around we will see that there's two hole right now in the bottom of the front feet of this model and this means that it's an open surface it's not water tight. So, lets fix this by going down to geometry and modify topology and click on close holes. So, that just fills in any hole that might be in the model making it water tight. Now the second thing you need to be aware of is that the model is actually sized to the real world units that…

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