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A Question with 3D Printing...

234k jamesPLANESii  7.9 years ago

When I transfer planes to blender, they come out plain white in the editor. Does this mean that when I print it, it will come out plane white instead of coloured?

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    9,430 CALVIN232

    Like I said with enough brains you could make a real plane @bspboy

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    10.9k bspboy

    I guess so. And you can print wires. Wow. @CALVIN232

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    9,430 CALVIN232

    Engine you can print one well parts out of metal and then put them together @bspboy

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    10.9k bspboy

    If you have and engine and wiring and lots of filament and engineering skills. @CALVIN232

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    9,430 CALVIN232

    Which means if someone was to create each part ready to be printed and put together then a actual plane could be built we could actually make our own plane in real life that is mental @bspboy

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    10.9k bspboy

    I think maybe so? You can also make a circuit board! @CALVIN232

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    9,430 CALVIN232

    So people could actually make and print parts for a real plane? @bspboy

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    10.9k bspboy

    Yes. I believe there is such thing as metal filament. As well as wood. @CALVIN232

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    49.1k Flightsonic

    @jamesPLANESii Pray that they do it right, lol
    I mean that should work if your library does printing

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    Ok. What happens of I just email the whole file to my library to print? @GenrichTitov @Flightsonic @bspboy

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    50.5k 324

    Yeah, like user below says, you may paint it, like I did with my HMTV. But there's a problem - you may need to sand your plane with a soft sandpaper.
    P.S. Blender doesn't understand mtl files. That was fixed in 2.78.

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    9,430 CALVIN232

    @bspboy @Flightsonic @t8erh8er is it possible to get something printed out of metal?

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    Ah ok. @Flightsonic

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    49.1k Flightsonic

    You need the textures file and .mtl file included in the export, if you have more than one extruder as @bspboy mentioned

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    10.9k bspboy

    Well unless you have more than one extruder or can switch color it always prints in one color.

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