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How to Orient a 3D Printed Part for Smooth Finishing

GrabCAD Tutorials
in 3D Printing
4 0 Beginner
This tutorial will show you the best practices for orienting a part in order to achieve a smooth finish.
Other setup printing 3d smooth finish orienting

Clean, easy to edit shape with Loft and Blend surface

Bobi
in Modeling
1 0 Beginner
Clean, easy to edit shape with Loft and Blend surface
Rhino industrial fillet smooth design box blend surface loft

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

Bobi
in Modeling
1 0 Beginner
Converting a metal tube with 3 mm fillets to an aluminum extrusion
Rhino tube corner blend surface smooth fillet transition design

How to build a quality blend curve on surface

Bobi
in Modeling
0 0 Beginner
How to build a quality blend curve on surface.
Rhino proper perfect smooth quality build surface surve blend

Modeling of Y-branch in Rhino 7

Bobi
in Modeling
0 0 Expert
Modeling of Y-branch in Rhino 7
Rhino pro advanced smooth pipe match perfect surface blend

Clean, easy to edit shape with Loose Loft

Bobi
in Modeling
0 0 Beginner
Clean, easy to edit shape with Loose Loft
Rhino nice industrial design box smooth blend surface loft

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

Gouza
in 3D Printing
0 0 Beginner
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
cura setting ironing printing 3d smooth surface quality

Magic corner in Rhino 7

Bobi
in Modeling
0 0 Intermediate
Magic corner in Rhino 7
Rhino pipe design transition fillet smooth surface blend corner

Modeling tutorial: Fixing a messy 3d model

Bobi
in Modeling
0 0 Intermediate
Modeling tutorial: Fixing a messy 3d model
Rhino safe smooth perfect round fix blend fillet box

Smooth/Hidden Lines in SketchUp

Roland MJ Ziemke
in Modeling
0 0 Beginner
Understanding the difference between smoothing out and hiding lines in your SketchUp model.
SketchUp geometry profiles edge hide smooth sketchup
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