[Paraview] [EXTERNAL] Re: 3d printing

[Scott, W Alan]

That's really nice!  Thanks Marcus and Luis!

Alan

-----Original Message-----
From: Marcus D. Hanwell [mailto:marcus.hanwell at kitware.com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 1:43 PM
To: David Thompson
Cc: Scott, W Alan; paraview at paraview.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview] 3d printing

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