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How to prepare 3D design for 3D printing

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  1. reemaj3D

    reemaj3D New Member

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    Check out this video of How to prepare 3D design for 3D printing

     
    #1 reemaj3D, Jan 3, 2016
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  2. WorkableRobo3dR1Plus

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    Pretty cool, however I just export my designs from autodesk inventor and scale back up in matter control, but this looks like a less "roughshod" way of exporting and a more consistent way of doing it. Cool video!
     
    #2 WorkableRobo3dR1Plus, Jan 8, 2016
  3. WheresWaldo

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    Hey @WorkableRobo3dR1Plus I use Autodesk Fusion 360 and it exports direct to STL without doing any post processing (other than slicing), doesn't Autodesk Inventor do the same?
     
    #3 WheresWaldo, Jan 8, 2016
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    Yes it does, but in matter control it is only scaled correctly by default if you are using metric. When You use inches, (I was sure to export the units in inches,) I think matter control ends up reading the inches as millimeters. It is good that matter control comes with an inch to millameter default scale factor though, otherwise I would be dead in the water. There is probably a fix somewhere, but I just havent researched it enough to find it. @WheresWaldo
     
    #4 WorkableRobo3dR1Plus, Jan 8, 2016

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