http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php Shapeways: Bring your creativity to life in 3D http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=58968&th=12088#msg_58968 i really like to print this piece, The Elegant Dog, in ceramic, but i'm afraid that the 10cm version is too little and the printing process and glazing will broke it.
Is 10 cm from the point of the tail to the nose too small for printing the dog in this material?

Here the Dog, with all the parameters -> http://www.shapeways.com/shops/tarum
I placed it as first in the shop.



If do yuo think it's not possible, would it be possible with the 15cm version?
Many thanks to all,

Andrea Tarabella
]]> Tarum 2012-12-20T17:08:25-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=58974&th=12088#msg_58974 Youknowwho4eva 2012-12-20T18:39:38-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=58980&th=12088#msg_58980 Youknowwho4eva wrote on Thu, 20 December 2012 18:39
Any chance you could bend the tail back to attach to the dogs body instead of being straight out?


I thinked about it, but i never seen a dog with the tail bended to the body when ***
i'm afraid that it will lost all the poetry]]> Tarum 2012-12-20T19:26:44-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=58981&th=12088#msg_58981 Youknowwho4eva 2012-12-20T20:06:27-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=62292&th=12088#msg_62292 12903

My question is how does this sculpture conform to the published ceramic design rules?
1. If I could create a wet sandcastle shaped like this (and I would like to see someone try) could I move it without breakage? I do not think so. In wet or even moderately moist sand the legs would come off and don't even think about the tail surviving.
2. The chest on the 15cm model pictured has to be thicker than 15mm which is supposed to be the max thickness?

CS quote the design guidelines when rejecting models and the forums are peppered with links to these so-called 'rules' but every other 'It arrived' or 'Feature this' post contains a model that does not conform.

Good luck to the designers who get their stuff through, but please update these guidelines to reflect reality and tell us what we can really do.

Thanks. ]]> AmLachDesigns 2013-02-18T08:57:36-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=62293&th=12088#msg_62293 Still I hope that this does not turn into another sad "stag head" story now that the model is up for sale.]]> mkroeker 2013-02-18T09:17:26-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=62294&th=12088#msg_62294 mkroeker wrote on Mon, 18 February 2013 09:17
Still I hope that this does not turn into another sad "stag head" story now that the model is up for sale.


I know what you mean, and it's kind of my point.

I love the Dog model (and needless to say have something outside the rules I would like to print Heron. For me it is all part of SW refining their offering. If the guidelines are just guidelines, fine, we'll submit things and see if we can get them printed. But then in the rejection don't quote the guidelines as rules, since they are not. If the guidelines are actually rules, then they need to be changed to reflect the current state of play.

It is frustrating to have a model rejected for, let's say:
1. In ceramic, over 15mm thick;
2. In Stainless, being less than 3mm thick;
3. In any of the wax support materials, being rejected for no way to remove support material;

And then to see pictures of great designs which do not conform, often as Featured Items on the Blog. ]]> AmLachDesigns 2013-02-18T09:30:05-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=62295&th=12088#msg_62295 of their production partners when it comes to more demanding models. Or on a more positive note, materials and methods
may have improved to allow things beyond the limits stated in the guidelines, and shapeways simply does not yet feel
confident enough to relax the rules ? ]]> mkroeker 2013-02-18T09:48:47-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=62297&th=12088#msg_62297
I am woefully ignorant of how SW subcontracts its production - I would have imagined that using subcontractors would necessitate increased vigilance and control (including quality) by SW, and would have meant that more rigidly enforced design rules/guidelines were necessary than if everything were in-house and open to flexible interpretation.

Ultimately I just want to get some prints made. As you know, when you are designing you need to keep the specific material constraints in mind: the items I have wanted to print in stainless or ceramic never quite seem to suit the guidelines. But am I limiting myself unnecessarily? That is the question. And if they do print, will they print more than once (back to the Stag's Head)? ]]> AmLachDesigns 2013-02-18T10:06:53-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=62307&th=12088#msg_62307 AmLachDesigns wrote on Mon, 18 February 2013 08:57
So, Tarum has produced this excellent sculpture of the Elegant Dog. Great work, I love it! And it has come out beautifully in ceramic 12903

My question is how does this sculpture conform to the published ceramic design rules?
1. If I could create a wet sandcastle shaped like this (and I would like to see someone try) could I move it without breakage? I do not think so. In wet or even moderately moist sand the legs would come off and don't even think about the tail surviving.
2. The chest on the 15cm model pictured has to be thicker than 15mm which is supposed to be the max thickness?

CS quote the design guidelines when rejecting models and the forums are peppered with links to these so-called 'rules' but every other 'It arrived' or 'Feature this' post contains a model that does not conform.

Good luck to the designers who get their stuff through, but please update these guidelines to reflect reality and tell us what we can really do.

Thanks.


to be honest, i tried to push to the limit the ceramic materials with the Elegant Dog.
In the beginning i imagined this model in black glossy ceramic or in steel, but at the moment the metal materials were a bit expensive for me.
In the end i rendered the model with a glossy material, similiar to the feel of the glossy ceramic.
Probably my mistake was to work before reading the guidelines, because i noticed that many things were wrong, so i tried to fix the model as best as i could for the guidelines (i have fixed sculpting and renderings).
I knew that probably something would go wrong, expecially for the legs, and for the fact that the model is hollow inside, but i made those components more robust.
My first costumer bought in dyed plastic (the small version, not hollow), and after 2 or 3 "your model can't be printed" we decided to try the ceramic material on the bigger one. Theissue with the small dog is that Shapeways had some problems to clean the inside of the model and it were impossible with a small hole (i used his navel). In the end i closed this model and now it's fully printable, but me and my costumer (that really woth 3 thousand of thanks for the pacience) decided to try the 15cm version in ceramic.
After 2 or 3 re-order i was sure that some fixes were necessary, i always try to take the advantage of this because Shapeways always send some images and advices for let the model survive the next print.
In this case fixes were not needed and Grrrrbob as promised sent me some images of the Elegant Dog (15cm) in Avocado Green Ceramic


I have not much experience, but what i can advise is to try and re-try to print model if you believe that it can survive in a specific material ]]> Tarum 2013-02-18T11:49:34-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=62320&th=12088#msg_62320 Heron. and this is the reply:

Quote:

Thank you for writing. Unfortunately the model will not be printable in Glazed Ceramics. At the moment the tip of the nose is too thin for this material and will break during the process. In addition your model is around 40mm thick in the middle, our Ceramics only allows a maximum thickness of 15mm: http://www.shapeways.com/materials/ceramics-design-guideline s Max Wall Thickness: 15mm I hope this information points you in the right direction. Kind regards,

So the dog and his tail will print, but the heron and his bill will not? If the legs were the problem, I would understand, but ....]]> AmLachDesigns 2013-02-18T15:16:56-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=62321&th=12088#msg_62321 (Both would make my avatar more at ease, and also it seems to me that the tip of the tail on that dog
is much more rounded in the photograph than in the original computer-generated image. )
At least that should give you an indication if service stopped checking after the first two issues...
]]> mkroeker 2013-02-18T15:30:35-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=62322&th=12088#msg_62322
I don't think the Heron can be easily be modified to be printable in Ceramic, so I'll have to come up with something else as my first foray into this material.]]> AmLachDesigns 2013-02-18T16:09:53-00:00