3D Printing model: is it possible to make and how to save to .stl?

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3D Printing model: is it possible to make and how to save to .stl?

Engy Yaer - 2021-09-16 15:26:47

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Hi Engy,
I have had no experience with 3d printing but to my understanding if you export to a mesh file format such as VRML or OBJ you can print it with a 3d printer so long as the printer can handle the triangles that make up the mesh. I tried exporting a house I am working on for an upcoming tutorial to OBJ and VRML. The problem with the OBJ file was seamless currently can only export one textured part (should not be an issue if everything was in one non textured part) but seamless was able to export all parts for VRML. In the image I show the settings I used for exporting to VRML and the exported wrl file opened in Print 3D, a program that comes free with Windows 10. I was able to load the wrl file into MeshLab and export from MeshLab to stl but then I noticed some errors in the triangles when opened in Print 3D that I don't see for the wrl file when opened directly in Print
3D. Maybe another program can export the wrl correctly to stl but hopefully your 3d printer software can handle vrml directly. I don't see the textures correctly but I would not expect a 3d printer to be able to print detailed textures unless perhaps it's a very expensive printer but I don't know what they are capable of.
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thyme - 2021-09-18 18:09:02 in reply to Engy Yaer 2021-09-16 15:26:47

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