Never coded in my life, need help exporting to 3D!

[strebeyko (Filip S)]

Hi,
So I have a dilemma that I’m hoping someone here will be kind enough to help me out with. I have zero experience in coding, not one line of code. I’ve never used Mathematica or anything like it before. I need a way to generate an asymmetric trigonal trapezohedron (aka a skew dice), and export it to a 3D-format like DWG, DXF, Sketchup or anything really. I’ve downloaded the Wolfram StreptohedronAndTrapezohedron-source from the Demonstration file provided here, but now I have no idea what to do… All I need is to export some different variations to try out. Please help!

[strebeyko (Filip S)]

Ok, so I’ve started doing some really basic tutorials to understand Mathematica, and although I find this very interesting, this is going to take me ages. I would be truly thankful if anyone could just give me instructions on how to perform the Export-command properly so I can move along with my design work!

[antelope (Aeyoss Antelope)]

Look at these 2 posts on this forum:

Creating a 3D mesh plot and exporting it to an STL file for 3D printing

Hello all, I've been trying to create a 3 D plot from my data. I have my X,Y, Z matrices, where Z = f(X,Y). I have my matrices in excel, which I've imported to Mathematica. A little bit of background here - I've not used Mathematica before. But fairly comfortable with Matlab. I'm trying to use Mathematica because it lets me create plots where I can create 3D models with tubes as opposed to surfaces on Matlab. My final goal is to create a 3D surface and export it as an STL file so that it ca…

Export as 3D file type STL for 3D printing

hi all, i have a ContourPlot of an equation and would like to export it as a 3D file type. ContourPlot3D[ x^2 + y^2 - x^2*z + y^2*z + z^2 - 1 == 0, {x, -3, 3}, {y, -3, 3}, {z, -3, 3}] can anyone tell me what to add to something like this in order to get it out as a 3D file but also /where/ i should expect this file to go? i am searching the help database and must admit that i sometimes have to be shown how to do these things since the pickorder and/or the syntax sometimes is hard for m…

I got my 3D shape to print by exporting to STL format and uploaded it to shapeways.com.

[strebeyko (Filip S)]

Thank you for your response, I’ll make sure to thoroughly check out those threads. Hopefully it will be enough to get me started!