My Print Pile
polycounter lvl 18
Hello,
I'll be doing a lot of experimenting with printing models so I thought it might be interesting to show some of that process.
I just got my Form 1 a couple weeks ago so to start testing it out I made a quick bust sculpt. I found the software starts to choke at around 2.4M polies so I decimate to get under that. It also does not support overhangs and whatnot so it seems printing hollow models isn't always possible. The software does a pretty good job of orienting a print so that it will print successfully but you can tweak it however you want. It really depends on how complex it is but the software at the moment can not make internal supports. I also tried printing multi-shell meshes and at small sizes it's possible but seems to fall apart on large prints. I have a 4" version of this with the face "melted" off. So for now I'll dynamesh everything together that is one print piece.
Zbrush render:
Form 1 test print (about 1 inch):
The print was done at medium resolution (.05mm) setting so the final I want to do at 5" and double the resolution. The banding here is about the size of fingerprint, maybe finer.
I'll be doing a lot of experimenting with printing models so I thought it might be interesting to show some of that process.
I just got my Form 1 a couple weeks ago so to start testing it out I made a quick bust sculpt. I found the software starts to choke at around 2.4M polies so I decimate to get under that. It also does not support overhangs and whatnot so it seems printing hollow models isn't always possible. The software does a pretty good job of orienting a print so that it will print successfully but you can tweak it however you want. It really depends on how complex it is but the software at the moment can not make internal supports. I also tried printing multi-shell meshes and at small sizes it's possible but seems to fall apart on large prints. I have a 4" version of this with the face "melted" off. So for now I'll dynamesh everything together that is one print piece.
Zbrush render:
Form 1 test print (about 1 inch):
The print was done at medium resolution (.05mm) setting so the final I want to do at 5" and double the resolution. The banding here is about the size of fingerprint, maybe finer.
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