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Nov 2015

Hello,

I have been using rhino and the makerbot for 3 months now. However, Im having trouble printing my file on the makerbot. Im having two different problems that I can manage to fix. Everytime I open my rhino file on makerbot it shows some of the surfaces black, and in some other cases the entire model comes out curved and weird… Im attaching photos to explain my problem…

Hope someone knows the problem and can help me :slight_smile:

Thanks

Michelle

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is it a closed polysurface?

and have you tried slicing it in cura?

are you sure you re exporting in the right way ? try to check the stl.file opening it with rhino.

In rhino, do you have your back faces represented as a different color than your normal faces. You can check, in the display tab. Or another option is to run the command “unifymeshnormals”, after you convert your model from nurbs to mesh. Another reson it might be doing that is due to you scaling the geometry, you might want to set your tolerances higher in the ‘units’ panel, from .01 to .0001, this will help with the scaling issue.

Rhino may have an option to set how fine the exported STL should be. If it is not fine enough when exported you could be losing the detail. Upload the file to Netfabb cloud to see what it looks like or load it to Shapeways. If it looks distorted there then you have a problem with your export.

Hi everyone! I was able to figure out the problem with a friend. the problem was that I had the model in inches and when i exported to the makerbot and changed the units to mm it stretched the surfaces so much that it damaged the file… So I had to change in Rhino the model from IN to MM and then bring it to makerbot already in MM and now it works :slight_smile:

Thanks to everyone who helped! I appreciate the time and the help :slight_smile:

Michelle C.

Hi! I was able to figure out the problem with a friend. the problem was that I had the model in inches and when i exported to the makerbot and changed the units to mm it stretched the surfaces so much that it damaged the file… So I had to change in Rhino the model from IN to MM and then bring it to makerbot already in MM and now it works :slight_smile:

Thanks so much, I appreciate the time and the help :slight_smile:

Michelle C.

Hi! I was able to figure out the problem with a friend. the problem was that I had the model in inches and when i exported to the makerbot and changed the units to mm it stretched the surfaces so much that it damaged the file… So I had to change in Rhino the model from IN to MM and then bring it to makerbot already in MM and now it works :slight_smile:

Thanks so much, I appreciate the time and the help :slight_smile:

Michelle C.

Hi! I was able to figure out the problem with a friend. the problem was that I had the model in inches and when i exported to the makerbot and changed the units to mm it stretched the surfaces so much that it damaged the file… So I had to change in Rhino the model from IN to MM and then bring it to makerbot already in MM and now it works :slight_smile:

Thanks so much, I appreciate the time and the help :slight_smile:

Michelle C.

Hi! I was able to figure out the problem with a friend. the problem was that I had the model in inches and when i exported to the makerbot and changed the units to mm it stretched the surfaces so much that it damaged the file… So I had to change in Rhino the model from IN to MM and then bring it to makerbot already in MM and now it works :slight_smile:

Thanks so much, I appreciate the time and the help :slight_smile:

Michelle C.

Hi! I was able to figure out the problem with a friend. the problem was that I had the model in inches and when i exported to the makerbot and changed the units to mm it stretched the surfaces so much that it damaged the file… So I had to change in Rhino the model from IN to MM and then bring it to makerbot already in MM and now it works :slight_smile:

Thanks so much, I appreciate the time and the help :slight_smile:

Michelle C.

Hi! I was able to figure out the problem with a friend. the problem was that I had the model in inches and when i exported to the makerbot and changed the units to mm it stretched the surfaces so much that it damaged the file… So I had to change in Rhino the model from IN to MM and then bring it to makerbot already in MM and now it works :slight_smile:

Thanks so much, I appreciate the time and the help :slight_smile:

Michelle C.