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Are you still allowed to have multiple models joined by a strut, in WSF?

]]> pdb 2012-06-23T17:55:31-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=50456&th=9985#msg_50456 and they print my 'multi model' setups where I combine 3, 5 or more different models into one file with the parts all laced up with a string, so I should think that there'd be no issue ordering one model comprising of many 'parts' on a sprue, as the many parts and sprue will all be combined into one mesh/shell at upload and become technically one model.

]]> stop4stuff 2012-06-27T15:18:35-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=50617&th=9985#msg_50617
With WSF struts are okay, and indeed the more tightly packed the better. Multiple parts in 1 STL for SLS is also fine, sometime it will give our planners more freedom in planning.]]> natalia 2012-06-29T19:21:03-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=50623&th=9985#msg_50623
The pdb's question is realated to WSF, so no 'depending which material you use', your reply may lead to un-needed questions about what can be sprued when the information is already out there.

Struts are maybe a part of a model, like as in struts joining upper and lower wing on a biplane, so, yes those struts are totally viable within the realms of a single model, bars/beams/struts that join parts of a model or multiple models as one model file may be called sprues and likewise are all part of the single model presented for printing.

And, as well, please don't try to confuse WSF with SLS as they're both the same process. (this may lead to un-needed questions in the forum, when the answers are already on the material page)

Paul]]> stop4stuff 2012-06-29T20:57:07-00:00