And Part two, because I can totally not screw up my first post... yup.

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Once you have your object, you can go up to File and select Save As. You want to pick .STL, .OBJ from the dropdown menu and name your file. We're now done with the slicer software. This is also the point where you can hit print and create the instructions for the 3D printer, but that's another topic.

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And now we open our 3D modeling software and import the .STL file we just created.

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This is what shows up after your computer stops thinking for a bit. Currently shown in wireframe mode.

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Now this is specific to Rhino and how I get the nice old time parchment look to my pics. I switch to perspective view, click on the little triangle next to the heading, and select Artistic.

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And after some waiting for the computer to hopefully not freeze up, the results. Take a screen capture, paste into MS Paint, and crop to taste.

I hope this has been helpful and inspires people!