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Post by korax on Oct 15, 2014 19:50:30 GMT
Hey guys! Autumn vacation is up here in Denmark, and since I'm the youngest colleague at the office, and the only one without children (who also have school vacation during this week) I volunteered to man the office by myself during this period, taking vacation at a later time. Not much is happening during this week anyway, so it's a bit like having a week's vacation with pay.  ANYWAY. Long story short I'm left to my own devices, and since I was appointed to test our new 3D printer, I thought I might as well try and see if I could actually come up with something nice to print.  Since this is just a test, I had thought about printing something Sega or Master System related. If you guys have any ideas about this let me know! Fair warning though, since this is one of the smaller prototype 3D printers with white filament, the end result might look like something Spiderman made in his leisure time. But if the shape is good, maybe some paint will help and the product could perhaps qualify...as a crude trophy maybe?  Anyway, feel free to write if you have any suggestions! |
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Post by ian on Oct 15, 2014 21:13:00 GMT
Wow, what a great opportunity. Perhaps you could try make a figurine of a Sega character, like Alex Kidd or Wonder Boy. Or perhaps you could turn an SMS controller into a belt buckle. That's the best I can come up with for now but I'm sure there's loads of good ideas for things you could do
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Post by gallos_11 on Oct 16, 2014 0:34:07 GMT
I'd print all day long if I had a 3D printer, hope to get one someday! Maybe you could print a miniature SMS console and with white filament would be awesome something like this:  (all rights reserved by rupert ) |
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Post by Batman666 on Oct 16, 2014 5:34:24 GMT
Sorry, can't think of anything creative. Would like to see the final product though, so make sure to post a picture |
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Post by korax on Oct 16, 2014 20:36:59 GMT
Since I'm not familiar with any 3D modelling software, I have been looking around to see if there were any free, decent 3D models of Alex Kidd or Wonderboy, but haven't found any yet. Also looked for a 3D model of a master system console, and actually found a very nice one, only problem is that the guy who made it wants 50$ for a copy, which is quite a bit more than I'm willing to spend So I just decided to see what I could make with the free models that I could find. I found a Sega logo which I tried to print, and it came out like this:  I thought about extending that design, perhaps as a trophy, with sonic as a figure. The thought is that Sonic will be holding the sega logo above his head, and stand on a platform or some kind of base, where I thought about inscribing something. |
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Post by Batman666 on Oct 18, 2014 11:56:57 GMT
Nice |
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Post by wayeK on Oct 19, 2014 8:02:02 GMT
That didn't turn out too bad!
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Post by Centrale on Oct 24, 2014 16:07:24 GMT
Since I'm not familiar with any 3D modelling software, I have been looking around to see if there were any free, decent 3D models of Alex Kidd or Wonderboy, but haven't found any yet. Also looked for a 3D model of a master system console, and actually found a very nice one, only problem is that the guy who made it wants 50$ for a copy, which is quite a bit more than I'm willing to spend I can make you a model of a Master System. I just need to know what file format you need for the printer. |
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Post by korax on Oct 24, 2014 18:05:18 GMT
Since I'm not familiar with any 3D modelling software, I have been looking around to see if there were any free, decent 3D models of Alex Kidd or Wonderboy, but haven't found any yet. Also looked for a 3D model of a master system console, and actually found a very nice one, only problem is that the guy who made it wants 50$ for a copy, which is quite a bit more than I'm willing to spend I can make you a model of a Master System. I just need to know what file format you need for the printer. That would be cool mate! I would need it in obj format if possible |
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Post by Centrale on Oct 25, 2014 19:27:04 GMT
Here ya go bud. PM me your email address and I'll send the .obj file. Mind you, I haven't modeled for 3D printing before (just for animation), so let me know if you experience any errors. I tried to keep the mesh pretty clean and light (for example, I didn't get down to modeling the pins in the controller ports) but I don't know if the 3D printer requires any particular density of the mesh. Also, you might want to check the scale of your scene - the model might import in as being tiny or huge and have the scale adjusted. Just let me know if you encounter any problems and we'll try to sort them out.  It doesn't have any surface shaders, since it'll be printed in translucent plastic. But if there are any community members who make videos and want to use it for some creative purpose, I'll see about making shaders. |
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Post by korax on Oct 26, 2014 10:02:56 GMT
Here ya go bud. PM me your email address and I'll send the .obj file. Mind you, I haven't modeled for 3D printing before (just for animation), so let me know if you experience any errors. I tried to keep the mesh pretty clean and light (for example, I didn't get down to modeling the pins in the controller ports) but I don't know if the 3D printer requires any particular density of the mesh. Also, you might want to check the scale of your scene - the model might import in as being tiny or huge and have the scale adjusted. Just let me know if you encounter any problems and we'll try to sort them out. It doesn't have any surface shaders, since it'll be printed in translucent plastic. But if there are any community members who make videos and want to use it for some creative purpose, I'll see about making shaders. That's an awesome job you've done there! Just PM'ed you my mail - I'll try printing it out at work next week I can adjust the scale no problem, and eventhough it's one of the smaller 3D printers we have, I will try printing it out as big as possible. Good thing about this model is also that it wont need any structural support, the printer will be able to make it layer on layer easily, since there are no real void spaces. I will post pictures when it's done |
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Post by Maxim on Oct 26, 2014 15:27:18 GMT
I thought the deal with 3D printers was that the plastic is crazy expensive so solid prints are usually avoided?
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Post by korax on Oct 26, 2014 20:08:11 GMT
I thought the deal with 3D printers was that the plastic is crazy expensive so solid prints are usually avoided? Depends on what you want. It isn't really a factor in this case, since we can get the filament for way below the retail price, but since the material isn't as sturdy as, say a mold, you'd just risk printing something that might end up being rather frail, if you print supported models. |
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Post by Centrale on Oct 27, 2014 14:35:28 GMT
If necessary, it's a simple matter to build an inner surface.
I'm more curious to see how forgiving the printer is in situations where the surfaces aren't connected with vertices. For example, in this model I have the Pause and Reset buttons combined with everything else as a single mesh, but they aren't connected with edge loops connecting the vertices of the button edges to the flowchart plate. That's something I can get away with when I'm just doing animation for video, but for fabrication I would guess that could possibly be a problem. If it does, just let me know and I can go through and do all that wherever necessary.
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