Looking at buying a 3d printer for a project, and I’m already familiar with sketchup. Through some research it looks like sketch up can be used for the design process, and just wondering if anyone here has experience with the program for the function.

Somewhere to start. [image] Real User 3d printer reviews 3D Printing I thought it would be useful to have a collection of reviews from people that actually own and use 3d printers. Like anything else they all look confusingly the same until you start using them and only th…

In general, enclose the raw geometry (edges and faces) in a component or a group. Make sure that the component or group is “solid” - a water-tight shape with no holes and no interior walls or partitions, and that all visible faces are the front of the face (not the back of the face). The Solid Inspe…

I’m using it for 3D printing and laser cutting. For 3D printing the key is Tom mentions, ensure the mesh is manifold, and that the faces are pointing in the correct direction.

To avoid problems with excessively small faces that SU can have trouble with, model in metres as if they were millimetres or inches. STL output files are unitless, so tell the slicer software to use mm or inches as appropriate, or scale the model back down to real world size if it won’t accept tha…

Sketchup and 3d printing - any tips, pointers or success stories?

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