Stratasys Objet500 User Manual page 57

Objet500 User Guide
2. With the object selected:
3. Click OK.
Model-Material
Before placing objects on the build tray in Objet Studio, you should pay
Settings
attention to the material selection settings on the Tray Settings ribbon.
Figure 5-25 Material selection settings
• By default, the material selection settings on the ribbon correspond to the
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❒ From the Object menu, select Separate into Shells.
or—
❒ On the ribbon, click
A dialog box opens in which you can specify where to save the component
stl files. (By default, Objet Studio offers to save the new files in a folder in
the same location as the original stl file.)
Figure 5-23 Folder selection for saving stl files after splitting into shells
Objet Studio splits the object into an assembly of component parts, each a
separate stl file ("shell").
The object appears—on the build tray and in the model tree—as an
assembly of parts ("shells"). You can assign each part a different model
material (This is explained in "Model-Material Settings" below).
Figure 5-24 Object after being converted to an assembly of component
parts
three model cartridges loaded in the printer.
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