Sends a 3D model to a 3D printing service.
After you select objects to print, the following are displayed:
- 3D Print Options dialog box
- Create STL File dialog box
- The Autodesk 3D printing website, where you can select a print vendor
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.