{"id":1550,"date":"2012-08-01T19:09:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T19:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/1550-how-to-prep-and-upload-a-3d-model-with-solidworks-for-3d-printing-with-shapeways.html"},"modified":"2017-04-17T12:48:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T16:48:57","slug":"how-to-prep-and-upload-a-3d-model-with-solidworks-for-3d-printing-with-shapeways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/how-to-prep-and-upload-a-3d-model-with-solidworks-for-3d-printing-with-shapeways","title":{"rendered":"How To Prep and Upload a 3D Model with SolidWorks for 3D Printing with Shapeways"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the first in our series of 3D Printing tutorials we will be posting over the coming weeks, the first of which entitled How To Prep and Upload a 3D Model with SolidWorks for 3D Printing with Shapeways<\/a><\/strong> has been posted by Rohit Mitra of SolidWize<\/a>. <\/p>\n

For more tutorials<\/a> on design for 3D Printing take a look at our Tutorials Pages on Shapeways<\/a>, but for now, lets take a look at SolidWorks with SolidWize…<\/p>\n

Here we’ll show how to prepare and upload a model to Shapeways using SolidWorks. Keep in mind that models should be exported as either STL files or VRML files (if using full color). Our final uploads can be found on the SolidWize Shapeways<\/a> page. <\/p>\n

Create Your Model<\/strong> <\/p>\n

For those of you who are relatively new to SolidWorks, check out the video below to follow along with my thought process in creating a simple bone wrench. This assumes a basic working knowledge of the SolidWorks toolset, and I’ll move through the process fairly quickly. <\/p>\n

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