{"id":7274,"date":"2013-10-09T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Solid-Edge-Blog\/Using-STL-to-3D-Print-in-Solid-Edge\/ba-p\/6005"},"modified":"2019-09-27T13:31:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T13:31:39","slug":"using-stl-to-3d-print-in-solid-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/using-stl-to-3d-print-in-solid-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Using STL to 3D Print in Solid Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Those of you that follow me on twitter <\/A>or Google +<\/A> likely know I have a few home projects running around 3D printing.  Many of you have high end Stratasys <\/A>or 3D Systems<\/A> machines at work and know outputting to these machines from Solid Edge has been available for many years and actually works pretty well.<\/P><\/p>\n

What is changing is that the low cost of the new machines from places like Makerbot<\/A>, 3D Systems (Cube<\/A>), and a host of other companies have more people wanting to 3D print from Solid Edge<\/A>.  It\u2019s great for students<\/A> who need a physical object and more common for designers to have 3D printers in their office for some basic prototyping<\/A>.<\/P><\/p>\n

Below is a simple video I did this weekend for one of my projects on how to create an STL file (the new Youtube functionality<\/A> is really is pretty handy). Because STL is faceted and unitless, it can sometimes create some confusion the first time it is used:<\/STRIKE><\/P>
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