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Otherwise, I love shapeways, keep up the good work.]]> HiLobster 2012-01-31T22:54:51-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=43249&th=8091#msg_43249 http://feedback.shapeways.com/forums/111989-shapeways-feedba ck]]> Youknowwho4eva 2012-01-31T22:57:29-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=43254&th=8091#msg_43254
-Saad
http://www.saga-3d.com/]]> SaGaDesign 2012-01-31T23:29:44-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=43255&th=8091#msg_43255
Simply scaling is extremely easy, but checking for minimum tolerances per material might be more difficult.

Still, something I'm surprised hasn't already been implemented.]]> 7777773 2012-02-01T01:01:47-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=43271&th=8091#msg_43271
[edit] If you haven't got NetFabb Basic (free) yet- go get it you can rescale and it shows the model volume, as well as having loads of other invaluable tools.]]> stop4stuff 2012-02-01T07:41:57-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=43297&th=8091#msg_43297 http://stonysmith.com/wired/scaling.asp

Scaling UP is rather easy, but it doesn't provide minimum cost.. scaling DOWN is the problem... you run into minimum wall thickness too fast.]]> stonysmith 2012-02-01T16:58:23-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=43441&th=8091#msg_43441 However, as has been said, scaling up won't help save money. And many models are probably already optimized by hollowing them out to minimum wall thickness, thus cannot be scaled down a lot.
I do see an advantage with e.g. rings that could be adjusted to finger size - but only in a small range. Since design for different ssizes is not just a matter of simply scaling up or down (e.g. a text printed with a 20 pt face is not - or should not - be simply a 10 pt text doubled in size), such a range would have to be kept small and should at least be limited by the designer]]> hagman 2012-02-04T10:28:03-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=43547&th=8091#msg_43547
Stony's right about the scaling down getting to be an issue easily, but since automatic wall thickness checking is something I know my team has somewhere up their sleeve, they could balance each other out nicely.

I didn't see an item for this on Uservoice, but if one was created, I'd suggest you post it here since you already have a little cluster of supporters.

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