Follow-up: 3D printing experiment

Post date: 02-Apr-2012 00:07:05

First, the bad news - after a lot of work building my robot model and sending it off to Shapeways, it got rejected - and most frustratingly it wasn't immediate (at the upload step) - it wasn't until a human looked at it a week or two later that they spotted that I'd made parts of it too thin. Better that than a failed print to be sure, but it was still pretty demoralising.

The good news is that it wasn't too hard to change the model into something could be printed - and in the process I learned a valuable lesson about baking Blender modifiers into a mesh, versus leaving them unbaked. :)

So while my print slowly wends it's way across the globe, I can reveal that I sent one to David too (the guy who got me started on this with his recent Enterprising print, so I sent this to him as a surprise.) He blogged the process of trying to get my ambitious design put together, but the real pay-off are these photos: