I printed out the neck piece of my modified version of the
Pink panther model. The original can be found at http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1216.
The final print will be 30 cm high, it was going to be bigger but I was unsure
if I would have enough plastic and printing time. This is one layer of six that
will make up the full print. Each layer will have different internal structures.
The final pieces are intended to be stacked vertically but remain separable so
you can inspect each piece individually. The print is an ice breaker to approach
the head of department I would like to network with. I used a new roll of
natural ABS that I have never tried before but worked first time.
To produce the model I have used the free version of Netfabb studio, OpenScad, MeshLab, and a bunch of my own code.
- Netfabb was used to slice the model into 50mm blocks, repair models, and edit triangles manually.
- Open SCAD was used to render generated structure into meshes and cut meshes from each other ('difference').
- MeshLab was used mostly to merge ('flatten') meshes together
- My code 'hollowed' out the initial model and generated the internal structure
The neck in slightly see through plastic
