# Making a simple design for 3d printing

**URL:** <https://forums.sketchup.com/t/making-a-simple-design-for-3d-printing/10253>\
**Category:** 3D Printing\
**Created:** [April 20, 2015, 1:59pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/making-a-simple-design-for-3d-printing/10253 "2015-04-20T13:59:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gully\_Foyle](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/gully_foyle/32/124_2.png) [@Gully\_Foyle](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/Gully_Foyle)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 2:57pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/making-a-simple-design-for-3d-printing/10253/3 "2015-04-20T14:57:49Z")

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> [@algomeysa2](#):
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> but I’m not having much success in Sketch-Up.

This tells us nothing and affords no basis upon which to offer advice. Please tell us exactly what you tried, what you were expecting to happen, and what actually did happen.

-Gully

By the way you may find this earlier thread of interest:

> [@How to ask questions](http://forums.sketchup.com/t/how-to-ask-questions/10214):
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> I think we need a “How to ask questions in this forum” topic. A lot of first questions of newbies here first lead to another question like… which OS, which SketchUp version, example model/image, … It would be nice to have a post where all these questions, which will help us to help adequate, are collected and the questioner can be pointed to…

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