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3D Printing in the Bollinger Digital Fabrication Lab, Holman Biotech Commons: Help

Free STL Repair Software

Autodesk Meshmixer - a free program for 3D printing to view, edit, analyze and repair STL files.

MeshLab - Open source software for processing and editing of unstructured 3D triangular meshes. It also has an extremely fast slide function.

Dental Model Repair

Models exported from dental 3D scanning software often need extra manipulation in order to become printable.  The following youtube playlist explains how to fix your dental model using MeshMixer.

Below is a list of some helpful videos from the playlist: 

Failed Print

Picture of failed 3D printed skull

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