I agreed to try to print someone's art project. It is a shape made with algorithms to explore mathematical languages, and this is the first of several he has which he made with Blender. It can be opened and placed as an object in Craftware. The error I'm getting when I try to slice it is "EXCEPTION : unknown exception type".

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The two things he did in the hopes of making it printable were: Checking for a volume to verify that it is "watertight", and manually fixing the "normals" for the faces, which he said can get reversed. He used Meshlab. From what he says, he doesn't have a lot of experience with this either.

As for me, I've only used solid modeling, so my knowledge is limited to references to Nettfab or Meshlab I've seen on Craftunique's forum. Is there some way to simplify the model maybe, or is something else wrong with it?

Thank you

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