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Sunday
Nov082009

Prepping for 3D Printing



Shapeways published an excellent article describing several tips for preparing your Blender file for 3D printing, specifically for using the Shapeways printing service.

The article explains how to fix non-manifold vertices, handling overlapping objects and output scaling, and are good tips even if you aren't using Shapeways.

Via Shapeways

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