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Shapeways: Bring your creativity to life in 3DVolume discrepancy question
http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=55366&th=11185#msg_55366
Here's the model: http://www.shapeways.com/model/737734/b0f0c61eb2857af67ad19c e4fafaa7e8
My calculated volume is: 198 cc
Shapeways volume shown online is: 216 cc
Why does it show more? I've got a lot of hollow volumes in it, but they've all got drain/access holes, so there's no captive holes. Any ideas?
Normally I wouldn't care too much about the volume, but this is a pretty big model and I was being very judicious with volume to keep cost down, but now it doesn't match my predictions, and it costs more than I expected.
Thanks!
~ Ben]]>Mid7night2012-10-15T03:54:41-00:00Re: Volume discrepancy question
http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=55387&th=11185#msg_55387
I fixed the volume discrepancy problem - I had a hollow void that I forgot to add a drain hole for. So now the volume matches exactly, but I still get an error-email telling me that my model is too big; which I KNOW Is bogus because I modeled it to fit in the WSF bounding box.
Do our uploaded models have to be in a certain orientation for the auto-check program to work? Like, maybe it's too "wide", but if you rotate it 90° it would fit being "tall"?