[Paraview] 3d printing

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 12:14 PM, David Thompson
<david.thompson at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
>> Is there any functionality to allow a cool ParaView visualization to be exported so that a 3D printer can print it?
>
> If you triangulate the surface and save as STL, then you can 3-D print the result. (STL only accepts triangles and it is up to you to ensure that the surface is closed.)
>
We did some work with this using our Makerbot, Luis posted some of his
experiences http://www.kitware.com/source/home/post/128 and
http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/591 (this one talks about using
ParaView to transform the model before saving the STL). Hope that
helps.

Marcus