3DPRINTSERVICE (Command)

Creates an STL file that can be sent to a 3D printing service.

Find

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

• 3D Print Options dialog box
  
• Create STL File dialog box

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.) 3DPRINTSERVICE does not optimize, or merge, coplanar faces during this conversion.