Pet monster Chubs
Description
Updated information will be posted in the Instructions below.
It's a little pet monster for the 3d artist mag contest and it's supposed to be a decoration item.
Please let me know if this model can be printed or if the details are to small. I'll try to fix problems with the model.
I don't own a 3d printer so I'm not sure if everything is as it should be.
View Turntable here (bottom of the page):
andreas-boehler.de/en/galerie/
Best regards,
Andreas
Instructions
Update 1: Orientation fixed.
Update 2: Chubs v2.1
As a result of the prints of Zarquon, mrtaylor and print3dXYZ and the feedback I've received so far I did the following changes:
-> no hole
-> higher resolution
-> about 110mm in hight (old one had 50mm)
-> exagerated details for better visibility
Update 3: Added new pictures.
Update 4: Chubs v2.2
-> Changed the spots on his head.
-> Now available as LowRes (50mm) and HiRes (110mm) version.
-> Updated the images.
Update 5: The LowRes Version is now also LowPoly ;)
Please let me know what you think, thanks!
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I like this contest so I'm interested in helping people develop there models. Here is an imgur gallery of some more pictures of how this one came out. http://imgur.com/a/ONlaa
As the other people mentioned the hole in the middle doesn't help much. It caused that little dent on top of the head on my print. I just used a fairly default print setup to make it and that could no doubt be fixed with some setting changes.
I'm not sure if all the tentacles are totally flat t
o the bottom. Skeinforge decided it needed to raft some of them but I can't see why.
The detail in the eyes was almost completely lost.
It is nice and watertight. That's semi rare for the curved artistic models.
Good luck with the contest and thanks for the nice model.
ps: tentacles should be totally flat as they're cut there but I'll check that.
Thanks for your feedback, very helpful! The printed model looks pretty rough, is this a given when printed or would I be able to change something to make it smoother when printed?
I'll upload a version without a hole soon. Any ideas how I could see which details will be visible when printed? Kind of hard when one has no experience whatsoever with printed models so thanks for helping me out!
I like it. I am printing one now. I think the hole in the middle uses more plastic then if you left it out. Also it take more time to print the hole. I will post a picture when it finishes. Thank you :)
Very cute. I love the expression.
It looks printable to me, though the end of the tentacle that curles up at teh end might need a little support material. But I won't have my printer for a few weeks, so I can't prove it.
For a printer that deposits plastic (i.e. the ones hobbiests use) you don't need to create a hole in the midd
le, as the printing sottware knows how to print things as hollow "shells" automatically. For higher end printers, making them hollow as you did (such as printing on Shapeways) will save a lot of money. So thanks!
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I'd like to throw in some observations. "Higher Resolution" in this instance should refer to a model having more polygons. Both of these models have about 337,000 faces, so they are only scaled wrt each other. That isn't necessary. All printers software can scale a model. Reducing the number of faces would help speed up the slice time, and since most printers aren't very high resolution the lower faces wouldn't be noticable in the 3d print. I'm glad you upped a version without the hole, since I like to print hollow objects and having a hole in the model makes that mroe difficult to achieve. I'd say both models 50mm tall one high res (300k polys) and low res (30k polys). But this can be done by anyone with meshlab so not really an issue.
Thanks for explaining this to me, I'll try to upload a lowpoly version soon. As I've no personal experience of how a 3d printer works this kind of information is really helping me to understand it!