VIRTUALENVIRONS Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 Printing NURBS. I have been working out the do's and don'ts of 3D printing in Vectorworks when using NURBS. I am finding the most common problem is how Vectorworks handles the direction of surface normals. It seems duplication of objects using the Mirror tool and how booleans (Add solids) are applied can be problematic, but not show stoppers. They can flip surface normals around in a "yet to be determined" fashion. Getting past that, Vectorworks can do some complex print models. I built this in 2018, don't know if VW 2024 has Backface culling or not. I use C4D to check. These models had no issues. Although both models are the same, the first one could not have been printed without a lot of support material. 1 Quote Link to comment
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