That's really nice! Thanks Marcus and Luis! Alan
-----Original Message----- From: Marcus D. Hanwell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 1:43 PM To: David Thompson Cc: Scott, W Alan; [email protected] Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview] 3d printing On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 12:14 PM, David Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alan, > >> Is there any functionality to allow a cool ParaView visualization to be >> exported so that a 3D printer can print it? > > If you triangulate the surface and save as STL, then you can 3-D print > the result. (STL only accepts triangles and it is up to you to ensure > that the surface is closed.) > We did some work with this using our Makerbot, Luis posted some of his experiences http://www.kitware.com/source/home/post/128 and http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/591 (this one talks about using ParaView to transform the model before saving the STL). Hope that helps. Marcus _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview
