Export

Where it is

Export, at the foot of the details panel · Open in Blender · Ctrl+B

What you can do

• GLB suits Blender, game engines and the web. OBJ comes with its materials and textures beside it. STL is for 3D printers.
• Detail: Full, or a lighter copy with half, a fifth or a twentieth of the faces. Textures can be kept or shrunk to 2048, 1024 or 512 pixels.
• Export… asks where to save it, in your desktop's own save dialog.
• STL comes out in millimetres, Z up and standing on the build plate, at the real size you set (100 mm tall if none).
• Exporting and Open in Blender need Blender: sudo pacman -S blender.
• Show in folder (Ctrl+E) opens the folder with the model in your file manager.

In this film

1. 0:04Export is at the foot of the details
2. 0:07GLB, OBJ with its textures, or STLGLB suits Blender, games and the web; STL, 3D printers
3. 0:11A lighter copy keeps fewer facesHalf, a fifth or a twentieth; textures can shrink too
4. 0:18Export… asks where to save itIn your desktop's own save dialog
5. 0:20Blender does the export, out of sightInstall it with sudo pacman -S blender
6. 0:26Saved, with its textures beside it
7. 0:30Next to the model: the OBJ, its materials and textures
8. 0:35Open in Blender opens the model straight in BlenderCtrl+B