3DPRINT (Command)

Sends a 3D model to a 3D printing service.

Find

After you select objects to print, the following dialog boxes are displayed:

The following prompts are displayed.

Select solids or watertight meshes
Select the 3D solids or watertight meshes to be printed. A watertight mesh is a mesh object with no gaps.

As you select solids or watertight meshes, note the following:

  • Blocks that contain solids or watertight meshes must be scaled uniformly.
  • Only solids and watertight meshes within selected blocks and xrefs are included in the output (STL) file. All other geometry is discarded.
  • Watertight meshes are converted to 3D solids based on the current value of the SMOOTHMESHCONVERT system variable. (Values of 0 and 1 create smoothed solids. Values of 2 and 3 create faceted solids.) 3DPRINT does not optimize, or merge, coplanar faces during this conversion.