Getting Stuff Printed | Week 9

❀° ┄──────╮

 Getting Stuff Printed

╰──────┄ °❀

Little bit of a late update but I wanted to get some things in motion before I summarized what I did this week! Last week and this week I mostly focused on finishing up my models and making sure their meshes were manifold and closed for resin printing.

There were some hiccups that I had to figure out, and some things were much easier than I thought would be. For example, the pizza pepperonis just did not want to behave mesh wise. I think it was the way I made them. So after wrestling with it, I eventually decided this pizza is a cheese pizza (and I can paint on details later. Also, when thinking of scale, this detail of raised pepperoni's is cool but won't necessarily be seen.)

I downloaded a tool kit for Blender called the 3D Print Toolkit. It's an add on that will basically scan your mesh/model and tell you if it's broken or problematic for printing lol! I mostly used it to identify unconnected edges or holes in my mesh. After I run my model through it, I then export the STL version of the model to Rhino for that final check to see if its fully closed mesh wise for resin printing. And huzzah, it was!

Behold my beautiful final models:

↶*ೃ✧˚. ❃ ↷ ˊ-

↶*ೃ✧˚. ❃ ↷ ˊ-

It was fun to continue my Blender journey by creating simple objects. I tried to add some life/personality with the bitemarks in the apple, or the ooze of the cheese. Modeling this time around was MUCH easier and I was also faster with problem solving.

I had a meeting with Peter, where I got some help double checking my meshes and got told the general timeline for resin printing. Luckily I should be able to paint these by next week! The timeline of this project is a little more squished, but after getting over last weeks illness I think the rest will go great. We also had the idea to do flocking - but since I wasn't able to get these submitted to print last week I'm worried I won't have time for it. But once I receive the prints I'll see how much time is left!

Now I have to skidaddle and grab some keychain making supplies and maybe pliers. I am beyond hyped to paint and put this all together!

↶*ೃ✧˚. ❃ ↷ ˊ-