Member TapperSweden Posted November 14, 2020 Member Report Share Posted November 14, 2020 I have made a model in Surface mode and when i export it to 3d printer the stl file is only 1Mb, that can nor be acurate. The 3b file is 178Mb. I want to share my work on thingiverse so i want to make it right. Im stil on the trial version if thats matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted November 15, 2020 Report Share Posted November 15, 2020 Hello When you open the exported model on any external app, it is ok ? Try as obj, it is ok ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member TapperSweden Posted November 15, 2020 Author Member Report Share Posted November 15, 2020 Hi. The only other app that im using is Tinkercad, i imported the file there and yes the object is there but in tinkercad style, very pixelated and a bit broken. How do i turn the file to obj in 3d coat? Thanks for the quick reply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted November 15, 2020 Report Share Posted November 15, 2020 May be are you working on voxel mode ? Left to sculpt layer, is it a V or a S letter ? If V press lmb over to switch to surface mode and try exporting it gain. Or open any default premade model and export it. How do it look ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member TapperSweden Posted November 15, 2020 Author Member Report Share Posted November 15, 2020 Im in surface mode, i will try to export a premade model and report back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member TapperSweden Posted November 15, 2020 Author Member Report Share Posted November 15, 2020 This is how it looks. The last picture is of an quick object i just created for testing and that one seem to be of a more acurate STL file size. As you can see the yoda bust is just a bit larger then 1MB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member TapperSweden Posted November 15, 2020 Author Member Report Share Posted November 15, 2020 (edited) There is also one thing that i find strange, if i put measurment to CM, the comma should be after the second number ,like in my picture, however, if i put MM like i have it sett to when i did this model, the comma should jump to the third number. (17 CM = 170mm). You can see on my first picture in MM has the comma on the same spot as in this one in CM and that is a bit confusing. the model size is in fact 17 CM tal like it says here. Edited November 15, 2020 by TapperSweden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member TapperSweden Posted November 15, 2020 Author Member Report Share Posted November 15, 2020 (edited) One thing i also noticed are the amout of triagles, i opened upp the Bust in windows 3d viewer and it has about 25.000 triangles and the ears are somewhat broken, the original model that i copied the head from (also my model done in 3d coat has 240.000 thousand triangles, in 3d coat however the triangles are displayed as about 4 milions on both. The original body and head do look ok (thank good) so something must have went wrong when i did the coopy. Edited November 15, 2020 by TapperSweden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted November 21, 2020 Report Share Posted November 21, 2020 File > Export > selected object as .STL is broke Try pressing RMB over the sculpt layer Optimization = no Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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