Blender 3D Printing by Example

Unwrapping an object into a UV Map

When you are in Edit Mode, under the Mesh menu, Blender gives you many options of how to unwrap your 3D object into a 2D UV Map. The UV Smart Project option is a good one to get acclimated to the process. The steps are:

1. In Edit Mode, switch to Face Select mode and press A to select all the faces:

Selecting all the faces

2. Under the Mesh menu, select UV Unwrap... and Smart UV Project:

Telling Blender to do a Smart UV Project

3. A menu option appears with settings. Keep the default options and hit OK:

Default ...