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I go by HellJumper. I've been modeling as a hobby for a while now, and I just recently found out about this website! I plan on 3D printing out a model as a birthday present for a brother of mine.

It's nice to be here!]]> HellJumper777 2011-03-04T02:32:21-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=24432&th=4676#msg_24432 bitstoatoms 2011-03-04T02:50:24-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=24433&th=4676#msg_24433 HellJumper777 2011-03-04T03:37:33-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=24444&th=4676#msg_24444
3D printers print without any smoothing, what you send in is what gets printed so you'll need to make your models smooth by increasing the number of faces (triangles) whilst trying to stay within the 500k triangle limit. Aiming for triangle sizes less than the minimum detail for a material is a good rule of thumb... this will also help to minimize 'stepping' on smooth curved edges.

Paul]]> stop4stuff 2011-03-04T09:00:20-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=24465&th=4676#msg_24465
Thanks, though!]]> HellJumper777 2011-03-05T00:19:30-00:00