In this lesson we'll learn how to save our files for 3D printing.
After completing this lesson, you'll be able to save an STL file.
we can send it off and have it 3D printed.
While we do that, I want to make note of a few things.
and the MAKE drop down has a 3D Print option, which will convert it to STL.
Proto Labs and others in here.
get quotes for things like injection molding, SNC, or 3D printing.
potentially injection moulding won't require that extra step.
each of those formats are going to be different.
we're going to select the bodies that we want to 3D print.
body, and then I'm going to go back do the component tray as its own file.
including the generative design that we created.
some of the refinement options that are preset.
can really determine what the final quality of the 3D print is going to be.
regenerate the preview, and we're going to take a look at how many triangles we get.
and most likely we're going to get quite a bit more on the medium setting.
things like arcs and circles will have a better resolution, all right?
So if you print a fairy low refinement, a circle might look more like an octagon.
straight lines in order to make that.
but the file size is going to get quite a bit larger.
like Proto Labs or Shapeways or other places will have a file size limit.
we'll have to put it in a zip file to make it a bit smaller and upload it that way.
just the overall curvature that you're trying to achieve.
And you can see with the medium refinement we've gone up to 854,000 triangles.
these corners now have a higher resolution.
enough resolution to print that accurately.
a location to save the file.
save this in our course Dataset locally to your machine.
XStar Body is what I'm calling this.
then it's going to save that STL file.
we don't really have a lot of curvature other than the fillets.
you can see that it builds quite a bit quicker.
strap the power cables and the areas where the battery strap is going to go.
this time we're going to call this XStar Component Tray.
you'll get a quote, maybe you'll get it 3D printed.
where you make changes based on real world experience.
that didn't have a separate component tray, it was integrated.
has a component tray that can be removed.
A lot of times prints like this can get fairly costly.
and you have to pay for it out of pocket, the costs can be quite large.
Ways that you can reduce the cost are by making the same parts, all right?
time in the same build is going to be quite a bit less.
you might have an initial print that's $100.
it might save you $50 on that print and so on.
$10 to print another version.
where you have multiple arms that are the same that could be put together.
right-hand side are a complete copy of each other.
right-hand side together at three places on the top.
you could potentially save a lot of money when you're 3D printing these.
move forward and start to manufacture.
we're going to talk about set up, and we're going to ultimately fly it.
And then you can follow along with the rest of the course.