{"id":342,"date":"2009-12-08T12:46:18","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T12:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/342-a-rapid-prototyping-and-stl-informative-guide.html"},"modified":"2022-09-28T13:21:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:21:16","slug":"a-rapid-prototyping-and-stl-informative-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/a-rapid-prototyping-and-stl-informative-guide","title":{"rendered":"A Rapid Prototyping and .STL Informative Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><!-- s9ymdb:869 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"471\" width=\"598\" style=\"border: 0px none; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/rapid-prototyping-and-stl-informative-guide2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>InstaTuts have published a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/instatuts.com\/featured\/a-rapid-prototyping-and-stl-informative-guide\/\" rel=\"noopener\">guide for exporting a model from 3DS Max<\/a> and printing it in ABS plastic (our &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/materials\/grey_robust\">Grey Robust<\/a>&#8216; material &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/338-Grey-is-good,-Grey-Robust-FDM-ABS-plastic.html\">we no longer offer &#8216;Cream robust&#8217;<\/a>). The article contains some useful pointers for the use of 3DSMax\u2019s STL Check Modifier and STL export function (note: Shapeways supports the more compact Binary STL file format, too!)<\/p>\n<p>I found it interesting that the article refers to manifoldness as &#8216;the Vertex to Vertex Rule&#8217;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What this means is that each triangle of the mesh must share 2 vertices with its adjacent triangles. For example one triangles vertex cannot lie on the side of a triangle, it must be attached to another vertex of the triangle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s an image in the article that illustrates this. What do you think? 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