New feature in the online 3D viewer: wall thickness control

Posted By Arthur Cassaignau on Jun 6, 2013 | 2 comments

Hi everyone! It’s thursday, and our team worked hard this week to integrate a new feature to the 3D viewer of the website. Our lead developer, Vivien, presented us this new functionality yesterday and we’re happy to let Sculpteo shop’s users know that they now can directly control the wall thickness of their design in the online viewer.

For every material, the short description on the right side indicates the minimum required thickness of the wall. It lets users know if their design fit the requirement for a 3D print.

Our engineers at Sculpteo are always working pretty hard to create automated tools for users. We firmly believe that a better and flawless service means to integrate 3D creation tools directly into our website to empower our users.  That is why after noticing that wall thickness was often an issue for Sculpteo’s users, we decided to add this feature directly into the 3D viewer of our website.

This functionality is really easy to use. After the upload of the 3D file, you have to enable the solidity check feature right below the material choice and scale of the 3D print. Once it is done, you just click on the 3D model and the thickness measurement will appear. Click again and it’s gone.

You can control as much points as you want within the same viewer.

We hope this new feature will allow our users to create better 3D print ready designs. If you have any suggestion about this feature (or maybe a new one) , feel free to shoot us an email. Have a nice week everyone!