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Shapeways | SketchUp 3D Printing export to STL tutorial

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This tutorial was made by Shapeways Community member Jed of Barrule.com. If you would like to use the content in this tutorial to help your community export to the STL file format or use Google SketchUp for 3D printing, please link to this page and do not copy our content once again. This would be lame. This tutorial is meant for Sketchup 7.1 or higher. It works with both the free version of SketchUp and also SketchUp Pro 7.

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There are various free and commercial add-ons for producing .stl files from within Sketchup, but having tried many of them most really do not work very well, if at all. Since the last Sketchup update though (7.1) it has become very simple to produce perfect .stl files and here is how to do it using a couple of other very useful and free programs alongside Sketchup (MeshLab and Accutrans3D). Meshlab is free and open source and Accutrans is free for 30 days. Open you model in Sketchup....

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