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Friday, June 13. 2008
TopMod3D - Give it a Try, Win a $50 Print
To give you an idea, the model only cost $26 to print because it's just a wireframe and doesn't contain a lot of material.
As my skills with this tool are obviously limited, I was wondering what someone with a bit more time and expertise would come up with.
So: I challenge you to come up with a fun and intriguing design using TopMod3D. I'll hand out a $50 coupon to the designer of the best entry to have it printed.
To participate, place the object in your Shapeways account and leave link in a comment below this post. We'll select the winner on Wednesday the 18th of June at 9am CEST (Amsterdam time). The winner will be announced later that day.
If you don't have an account yet, register as a beta user and enter 'TopMod3D' in the 'How did you hear about us?' field. We'll keep a close eye on the entries and invite you as soon as we can. Be sure to read 'How Does Shapeways Work' after logging in for the first time.
Have fun!
Bart
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I tried creating something for this competition ("InfiniTangle Box", under Work in Progress at the moment), but the smoothed version (~130k faces) seems to have been too large for the servers, and the lowpoly copy that I uploaded in its place has decided to be about 8 metres across.
I suspect I've made a fairly bad mistake somewhere (trying to upload this close to the deadline, for one thing). Would I get away with emailing the .obj file (the smoothed one) in, rather than uploading it normally?
I suspect I've made a fairly bad mistake somewhere (trying to upload this close to the deadline, for one thing
). Would I get away with emailing the .obj file (the smoothed one) in, rather than uploading it normally?
Update: Never mind, it's showed up now!
Although I suspect it might show up twice, and I'm still a little uncertain about the fact that it's decided to be eight metres across...
Although I suspect it might show up twice, and I'm still a little uncertain about the fact that it's decided to be eight metres across...
Yeah, we won't be able to print a model of 8 meters 
Try scaling it down and upload it again - if you can make it small enough to have it printed for $50, it's yours!
Bart
PS: You could also try making the thinnest parts a bit thicker. Our software will check if your model is printable, but with such thin parts it might still break easily..
Try scaling it down and upload it again - if you can make it small enough to have it printed for $50, it's yours! Bart
PS: You could also try making the thinnest parts a bit thicker. Our software will check if your model is printable, but with such thin parts it might still break easily..
http://www.shapeways.com/model/919/topmod_entry.html
That's my entry...I have a smaller version which should cost a lot less uploaded as well....
Can we have more than one entry here?
That's my entry...I have a smaller version which should cost a lot less uploaded as well....
Can we have more than one entry here?
