Perry the Platypus
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Published on February 7, 2012
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I suppose I'll always remember that Perry was my very first....thing. This is actually a scan that I did using 123D. Check this blog post for details on how that was done: makerbot.umwblogs.org/3d-scanning-from-photographs-with-123d-catch
I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out but would love to know more on how to give it a flat bed to sit on and remove the makeshift ramp that was left from the table being included in the scan. I've included the .obj file that I got from the software and the only editing I did was removing the extra furniture and parts of the table in Meshmixer (very new to this).
In any case you can print your own Perry and keep him close. If you do I'd love to see a picture of him in your natural habitat!
Update: Thanks to Landru I've put the updated version of Perry on here with smoother polygons and a flat bottom.
I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out but would love to know more on how to give it a flat bed to sit on and remove the makeshift ramp that was left from the table being included in the scan. I've included the .obj file that I got from the software and the only editing I did was removing the extra furniture and parts of the table in Meshmixer (very new to this).
In any case you can print your own Perry and keep him close. If you do I'd love to see a picture of him in your natural habitat!
Update: Thanks to Landru I've put the updated version of Perry on here with smoother polygons and a flat bottom.
Instructions
1. Download STL file
2. Generate Gcode with exterior supports turned on
3. Print!
2. Generate Gcode with exterior supports turned on
3. Print!
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meshmixer
on
February 9, 2012
said:
meshmixer has booleans now, you could use it to subtract a cube *interactively* =)
I recently posted two tutorials on youtube that might be helpful:
Mjolnir
on
February 9, 2012
said:
I'd think that importing the STL into OpenSCAD, and subtracting a cube from the bottom of it, to take out the table remnants would do it. Can't try right now but maybe I'll give it a shot this evening.
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I added a flat base and smoothed out the polys in blender. Feel free to add my file to this thing.
Thanks for the scan!
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/628305...
Ah, you rock! I'll put yours up. The printed version looks great!