Tutorials

How to Orient a 3D Printed Part for Smooth Finishing

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This tutorial will show you the best practices for orienting a part in order to achieve a smooth finish.

Clean, easy to edit shape with Loft and Blend surface

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Clean, easy to edit shape with Loft and Blend surface

Converting a metal tube with 3 mm fillets to an aluminum extrusion

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Converting a metal tube with 3 mm fillets to an aluminum extrusion

Clean, easy to edit shape with Loose Loft

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Clean, easy to edit shape with Loose Loft

Modeling of Y-branch in Rhino 7

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Modeling of Y-branch in Rhino 7

Magic corner in Rhino 7

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Magic corner in Rhino 7

How to build a quality blend curve on surface

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How to build a quality blend curve on surface.

Modeling tutorial: Fixing a messy 3d model

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Modeling tutorial: Fixing a messy 3d model

Make the top surfaces of your 3D prints (almost) perfectly smooth with Cura “Ironing” setting

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o you want to improve the quality of yours 3d printed Parts. the “Ironing” setting can help you get smooth surface of your 3d printes.. The setting can tremendously help with the topmost layer surface finish when printing objects with big flat areas on top (in my test case, it was a keychain I was making for a friend). For “curved” objects it should not matter. Here’s how it works: when the topmost layer is finished, it REPEATS it without moving the print head higher. The head moves in a more dense zig-zag pattern (customizable, default 0.1mm) with much lower extrusion multiplier – not sure if it was 5% or 10% by default, but in my test case I used 10%, and it worked flawlessly. This helps smooth out any surface irregularities and gaps on the topmost layer, hence the name: “ironing”. In this Video i schow my result – same model & same settings: https://youtu.be/N-XkWBtJQJY Please do not forget to schow some support and to subscribe my YT-channel

Smooth/Hidden Lines in SketchUp

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Understanding the difference between smoothing out and hiding lines in your SketchUp model.