| How can I make a cheap model? [message #36336] Mon, 10 October 2011 16:46 UTC |
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I made a Pythagorean Cup but the price is too high....!@#@!$!#!
How can I make a cheap model???
Riddle, riddle riddle...
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| Re: How can I make a cheap model? [message #36337 is a reply to message #36336 ] Mon, 10 October 2011 16:52 UTC |
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Well for one, the only certified food safe printing material is ceramic (which is currently unavailable, should be back soon), which internal geometry won't be glazed so wouldn't be food safe either. But when it does return, it was priced by surface area. The least expensive material is sandstone right now, as long as your walls are 3mm thick. If you want to use other materials, check out their restrictions, as you can get thinner walls with most other materials
http://www.shapeways.com/materials/
The Mad Moder
michael@shapeways.com
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| Re: How can I make a cheap model? [message #36338 is a reply to message #36336 ] Mon, 10 October 2011 16:55 UTC |
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Can you explain me why the prices are so high?
Riddle, riddle riddle...
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| Re: How can I make a cheap model? [message #36341 is a reply to message #36336 ] Mon, 10 October 2011 17:16 UTC |
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You can use as many polygons as you like, up to one million. It does not affect cost.
Aaron - 40westdesigns.com/blog
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| Re: How can I make a cheap model? [message #36351 is a reply to message #36341 ] Mon, 10 October 2011 18:04 UTC |
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| aeron203 wrote on Mon, 10 October 2011 17:16 |
You can use as many polygons as you like, up to one million. It does not affect cost.
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I have just made a new model and it has 600.000 polygons but when i upload it the message says "too many polygons". What can I do?
Riddle, riddle riddle...
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| Re: How can I make a cheap model? [message #36352 is a reply to message #36337 ] Mon, 10 October 2011 18:06 UTC |
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| Youknowwho4eva wrote on Mon, 10 October 2011 16:52 |
Well for one, the only certified food safe printing material is ceramic (which is currently unavailable, should be back soon), which internal geometry won't be glazed so wouldn't be food safe either. But when it does return, it was priced by surface area. The least expensive material is sandstone right now, as long as your walls are 3mm thick. If you want to use other materials, check out their restrictions, as you can get thinner walls with most other materials
http://www.shapeways.com/materials/
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New and improved sandstone is 2mm walls 
see http://www.shapeways.com/materials/fullcolor
Very cool model though
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| Re: How can I make a cheap model? [message #36355 is a reply to message #36353 ] Mon, 10 October 2011 18:30 UTC |
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A four sided polygon is made up of 2 triangles, 5 sided = 3 triangles, etc... the limit is 1,000,000 triangles
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| Re: How can I make a cheap model? [message #36358 is a reply to message #36336 ] Mon, 10 October 2011 18:37 UTC |
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He's saying that your software may be counting polygons as any 2D shape (triangles, squares, trapezoids so on) Shapeways allows 1 million triangles, each square would be 2 triangles. A model of 600K squares would be 1.2 million triangels.
The Mad Moder
michael@shapeways.com
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| Re: How can I make a cheap model? [message #36362 is a reply to message #36356 ] Mon, 10 October 2011 18:44 UTC |
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^^^ what Mike said
Its a bit confusing getting an email about polygons - generic name for 2D shapes, no matter how many sides when Shapeways actually mean triangles - specific name for a 3 sided 2D shape 
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