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Preparing a model for prototyping

Preparing a model for prototyping - Rhino Tutorial

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Preparing a model for prototyping

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In this video, we are hopefully 100% complete with our design and modeling, and ready to export for prototyping. The prototype is a 3-dimensional print out, or physical part that you can hold on your hand. It's typically fabricated with a 3D printer, which uses your data exported from rhino. Now, assuming you've built your model cleanly and carefully, you might be the one person who never needs these strategies. But for everyone else, I've developed a series of quality checks and fixes that can make this somewhat stressful stage a little bit easier. So the key with prototyping, is just to make sure we have a closed, solid, with no openings. Let's focus on this landing gear foot. I'm going to turn off the grid here, with an F7, and let's do a quick visual inspection. Seems to be okay. The one command I like to do first of all, is analyze mass properties volumes. And this will immediately tell me, if there's any openings. Right click. And, sure enough, you've got an opening somewhere…

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