How to design for 3D printing optimize your 3D models for print
Table Of Content Wall thickness Fantastic USS Defiant Star Trek 3D Print: Tips & Tricks by Anthony Sforza Best Overall 3D Printer for Serious Hobbyists, Makers Useful 3D Prints Printing Hosts & Remote Monitoring Software Blender [Animation] The Best 3D Design Software for 3D Printing While you can rotate the object in Slic3r from the toolbar you don’t get to specify which axis to rotate around. A specific example of this was a stand for a tablet that I found on Thingiverse. This stand had a curved back and the default orientation of the STL file had that curved part being printed first. It was going to be much more successful to print the stand in the orientation that it would be used in so that the curved part was not trying to support the whole stand. This lead me to use Blender to load, rotate, and reexport the STL file for Slic3r to see in my desired orientation. Clicking on More lets you place many identical copies of the same object on the print plate shown on the lef...