3D Print done!

Just picked up my prints from the shop! They turned out awesome. I lost some of the detail in the tops of the buildings because it can't print anything smaller than 1/8th of an inch thick. No matter, i can fix all of the little details manually.
I even managed to fit two large and one small in the print envelope of 5x5x6. 

The future is here my friends. 

L6xH5xW2 inches

3D Printing: Caught in the Headlights

"Caught in the headlights"

Here is a model I made for 3D printing (3DM) and pepakura. I took a few models from a database library. Here is a collage of a deer model, bridges and buildings which I manipulated to create my desired form.

Here is the model in Rhino

 There were some issues with the deer model so I took the file into Maya to clean up the mesh to get rid of all the manifold surfaces. I had to separate the leg and make that a separate shape from the main body. I will just put these two shapes next to each other and they will be fine in the 3D printer.

Fix in Maya

 Here is the final model in Rhino. I made sure to convert all of the models from polysurfaces to meshes so they would print properly. All clean meshes! Some of these I had to remodel because of some issues with the original data.

Here is the model in Keyshot, some cool renderings with a metal and wood.

Steel

Wood and Silver