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Shapeways: Bring your creativity to life in 3DRe: Hollowing and Prices
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JACANT2013-05-24T20:23:52-00:00Re: Hollowing and Prices
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I am having the same issue. I just uploaded a small part of my model and it is being priced at almost $10!
I created a huge sword and the whole thing cost that!
I hollowed it our and left a hole for the powder. The walls are 1.5mm.
The whole model is 3x this and more complex, is this pricing right? Is there anyway to make it smaller?
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If the inside shells are not connected to the outside Shapeways will ignore them and treat the model as solid.
Even if the two inside shells were connected properly you are not hollowing the model to optimise it for the best savings. See image.
Some of the walls are nearly 6mm thick.
I have extracted the full outer shell as one. I will PM it to you.
Open it in Blender and try the solidify modifier. To create the wall thickness you want. You will have to create a hole / tunnel to join the inside to the outside.
Export as STL this should reduce the cost.
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The volume of your model is 149cm3 so the price in wsf would be approx 1.5 + 1.4*20 + 0.70*129 = 120 USD (assumes the discounted rate).
The model is big, but if you hollow it, the price will come down.
If it is supposed to float, be aware that wsf is porous.]]>AmLachDesigns2013-05-23T16:42:58-00:00Re: Hollowing and Prices
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SlothLife2013-05-23T16:08:31-00:00Re: Hollowing and Prices
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Have you searched the forums for other similar queries, because this question has been asked many times before and the answer will be one of:
1. Your model is too big;
2. There is a problem with your model and SW thinks it is not hollow.
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I created a model that is about 3w x 9d x 3.5h inches. I spent a good deal of time hollowing out the model, as is recommended in the tutorials section, but my prices for printing still seem to be ridiculously high. Am I doing something wrong? Is my model too large? I am not sure what to do to get the prices down to something more reasonable.]]>SlothLife2013-05-23T15:52:15-00:00Re: Quads or triangles for models printing?
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Have a look at the tutorials and FAQ. http://www.shapeways.com/tutorials/ http://www.shapeways.com/support/faq]]>JACANT2013-05-22T22:05:27-00:00Quads or triangles for models printing?
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Im making some stones with symbols on them. The problem is the symbols are detailed and the stones are simple. I want to embed the symbols into the stone and print them in full color sandstone.
Im using Maya 2013
What I was going to do was draw out the shapes with the polygon tool, and mold the stone around it. Some of these symbols are complex.
What I wanted to ask was, in order to submit a model for printing, do the faces on the models all need to be quaded (square with 4 verts each) or can they be triangles? I wasnt sure if it mattered or not, but it will all be a single object in the end.]]>lukegonet2013-05-22T19:58:46-00:00Re: Multi-color
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regarding a new thread ... ok usually in the forums I frequent, advise not to open new but to do research and continue the old
I see here that works differently ]]>carmelari2013-05-22T13:54:19-00:00Re: Multi-color
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wrote, the .wrl in your zip does not mention the texture file anywhere (it should have an ImageTexture entry with
the filename). Also, the "texture file" you included in the zip appears to be in some Rhino-specific format, while it
should be a regular jpg or png image. See if you can find any option in Rhino to "map" or "bake" the texture to the
model.
(And please create a new thread when you have new questions - or are you the "njcadman" from last july ?
Reviving a year-old discussion that is only tangentially related is confusing at best, and all previous contributors to the
thread will automatically receive an email notification while the topic may no longer be relevant to them)]]>mkroeker2013-05-22T11:49:22-00:00Re: Multi-color
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I looked in your .wrl file and I can see no reference to the .rtex texture file. In your 3D software are you sure that you have correctly linked the Texture to the model? The problem is almost certainly in this area.
Good luck! ]]>AmLachDesigns2013-05-22T09:44:16-00:00Re: Multi-color
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carmelari2013-05-22T09:16:48-00:00Re: Multi-color
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in short, I tried everything but I can not see any kind of color in the file that SW charge!
I wrote some time ago to the support but they told me that they are not technicians and I have to read the guidelines. Well I know them by heart now!
possible that there is a "technical" SW to show me the way?
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I did several tests, I am attaching the last: a simple cube with a mapping of bitmap color wood
I put everything in a compressed folder and load
but when I go to see the picture of the model of SW is no color ]]>carmelari2013-05-22T08:06:54-00:00Having trouble with overlapping parts
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parsons2992013-05-21T03:50:32-00:00Re: Render in Shapeways is missing some parts
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It would be easier if you exported your model as an STL file. Here's a link http://sourceforge.net/projects/stl4su/
Open it in http://www.netfabb.com/basic.php which is free.
Once in Netfabb you can see the red exclamation mark, which means it needs repairing. Click on the red cross.
What you see now is holes in your model 'yellow lines' and inside out faces 'coloured red' which are inverted normals.
An Automatic repair will fix most of the issues, if not all for some models. Click Apply repair.
Goto Part - Export Part - as STL a screen will appear click on Repair then Export
This should be OK to upload as it is, even with six shells. If you still can't fix your files upload them to http://cloud.netfabb.com/ this is free as well.
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Thats awesome and thank you very much. I need to do this type of thing again though. Is there a simple explanation for what I did wrong?
Thanks again,
Sam]]>imsammyd2013-05-18T13:16:45-00:00Re: Male and Female
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http://www.shapeways.com/tutorials/designing_mechanical_part s_for_3d_printing http://www.shapeways.com/tutorials/designing_mechanical_part s_3d_printing_the_whoosh http://www.shapeways.com/tutorials/design_rules_for_3d_print ing]]>JACANT2013-05-18T11:17:50-00:00Re: Render in Shapeways is missing some parts
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JACANT2013-05-18T11:08:00-00:00Render in Shapeways is missing some parts
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I attached the preview I see in shapeways as well as the dae.
Any help would be appreciated. ]]>imsammyd2013-05-17T23:35:28-00:00Male and Female
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I have a question:
I want to print 2 pieces that are clipped together by a grafting ( male and famale )
Considering that I use Strong and flexible white how much must be smaller the male ?
For example : if the female has an hole of 10mm ..the male must be?
And if the male is a spherical ,how must be the female?
Thanx ]]>Anjys2013-05-16T13:16:37-00:00Re: Is it possible to upload models >64Mb?
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For a 1million triangle model, an STL binary is 47.6 MB and STL ascii is 202 MB
You can load & export either using NetFabb Basic (and it will show the triangle count too).
Another non-issue that can cause an unspecified upload fail result is the complexity of a model, for instance if a model is made up of many rings that interlock e.g. chainmaille, Shapeways MeshMedic can spend so long checking the integrity of the model that it reaches it preset time-out (20 minutes iirc). A single near 1million triangle colour model or multiple smaller colour models in one file can also cause the same time-out.
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