About Using a 3D Printer

If you connect to a 3D printer through a Materialise build processor, you can generate support structures.

When you print to a 3D printer, you can do following:

• Apply colors to the models you print, based on the available colors in the connected 3D printer.

• View the required amount of build material.

• Control the STL quality.

• Clip the model to see its interior.

• Show or hide the visual representation of the support material.

• Set the draft angle of the support material.

• Slice the model and lattice, and save the slicing data in CLI files.

When you connect to a printer through a Materialise build processor, you can also slice the support structures.

• Print the model.