Netfabb Studio tutorial

Draft

Introduction

“netfabb Studio is a software tailored for additive fabrication, rapid prototyping and 3D printing. It includes the ability of viewing, editing, repairing and analyzing stl-files or slice-based files in various formats.”. This version is free.

Netfabb Studio (or Pro) is a must have tool for printing with the RapMan.

A pro version is available plus a commercial unexpensive g-code generator for rapman that you could use instead of skeinforge

Two parts in Netfabb

Base functionalities

Positioning and resizing

Positioning is really easy because one can quickly choose a view from one of seven views (e.g. top, bottom, left, right, front, back) and then either move the object or drag a corner of the (green) bounding box rectangle.

For precision work, e.g. align to z=0 one can use a popup.

Cleaning

Cleaning of .STL files is an absolute must and this software usually does a great job. Click on the red plus sign, then commit.

Export

In the free version, you only can export single object (part) as .STL. Use Meshlabs to merge several objects :)

Links

Download

• [Netfabb]