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Printing the vase
The vase is now complete and can be exported. Exit the
Edit Mode
and with the final
vase selected navigate to
File
|
Export
|
Stl (.stl)
in the menu bar. Then process in
the usual way for printing. The example model had some overhang in the mouth
area but printed okay:
Extra credit
There are often many techniques that can be employed to make the same thing. In fact,
there is another way that this sort of vase could have been created using mostly just the
techniques learned in the previous chapter. Starting with a cylinder at the bottom of
the reference image, extrude the top slightly, and scale each extruded segment:
