Reduce Printing Costs
To help optimize the price of material used, the Wolfram Language provides utility functions such as ShellRegion to hollow out models.
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![Click for copyable input](assets.en/reduce-printing-costs/In_31.png)
original =
ExampleData[{"Geometry3D", "Triceratops"}, "BoundaryMeshRegion"]
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![](assets.en/reduce-printing-costs/O_31.png)
Hollow out the model.
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![Click for copyable input](assets.en/reduce-printing-costs/In_32.png)
hollow = ShellRegion[original];
Show[hollow, BaseStyle -> Opacity[0.4]]
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![](assets.en/reduce-printing-costs/O_32.png)
Saving more than half of the material and reducing printing costs.
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![Click for copyable input](assets.en/reduce-printing-costs/In_33.png)
Volume[hollow]/Volume[original]
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![](assets.en/reduce-printing-costs/O_33.png)
Print the model.
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![Click for copyable input](assets.en/reduce-printing-costs/In_34.png)
Printout3D[hollow, "3DHubs", RegionSize -> 3]
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![](assets.en/reduce-printing-costs/O_34.png)