{"id":314,"date":"2009-10-26T12:34:14","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T12:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/314-new-tutorial-prepping-blender-files-for-3d-printing.html"},"modified":"2022-09-28T12:28:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T16:28:00","slug":"new-tutorial-prepping-blender-files-for-3d-printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/new-tutorial-prepping-blender-files-for-3d-printing","title":{"rendered":"New tutorial: prepping Blender files for 3D printing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- s9ymdb:777 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"156\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/selection_grow2.gif\" style=\"border: 0px none ; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;\"><\/p>\n<p>Every now and then a little gem of usefulness appears on our forum that is just too good to leave it just there. Community member Jeff LaMarche wrote a great tutorial on getting your Blender designs cleaned up and ready to upload to Shapeways. Together with Jeff, I cleaned it up a little and republished it as a full-fledged Shapeways tutorial. 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