Wednesday, May 25, 2011

First Successful Upload to Shapeways!


http://www.shapeways.com/model/264954/bec_model_stl_origin.html?gid=ug85099

This was a test model to the right scale to see if there are any errors in my model that would stop it from being uploaded before I spend time perfecting the geometry for the real model I want to print. For this model I baked the joined geometry in Grasshopper, and then scaled my model by 10 in Rhino, which made the pipes about 1mm in diameter which is printable.
This is my 4th attempt at uploading a model to this website and this one did not have an error! There are a couple of mistakes in the model, you can see them in this image so now I am going to figure out how to edit the baked model in Rhino to make it exactly what I want for 3D printing! It's about 14cm in diameter and will be about $20 for each iteration that I print :)

Here is the email they sent me when the model was successfully uploaded and checked for errors!


Here is my Grasshopper model and what it looked like before being uploaded. The red is the Grasshopper-generated model, and the green is the baked and scaled version of that that I uploaded.

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