Hi all, Ive been testing out some coins lately for printing via Shapeways. I have done them in singles, 4, 8 and 16 packs. Each coin is connected to the next coin with a small 1mm sprue. All 16 coins in my biggest STL lay flat. I then doubled to 32 coins and put the next set of coins above the first set and attached the 2nd set to the 1st set with sprue's again. However, when I go to upload the 32 coin STL file to Shapeways it stalls out and doesnt move on to the quote section/manual checks area. The STL is only 22mb. I have seen that WSF supports multiple parts per STL. Metallic Plastic only supports 16 parts per STL. Is there some sort of issue now that I have 32 coins attached with sprue's? I thought Shapeways would still only recognize the 32 coins as 1 single part since they are all attached. Any help on why my STL might not be uploading would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all for your time. Chris,
I think it is mathematically impossible to have more than a million polygons in a 22mb file, but I have had complex geometry confuse the automatic test before. I just had to make modifications to my process (volumetric topo values, increase gaps, etc), modify the model in mysterious ways and hope it get past. Voodoo. -S
Hey all, Thanks for the replys so far. I dont know what it was, I tried it again and it went finally after about 10 minutes? I tried 20-30 times yesterday with no luck. I didnt change anything to get it to work. Sorry for waisting everyones time.