// MODEL MAKING3D Printing and RHINO3D Printing and RHINO

Agenda•Future Trends

•Best Practices for Modeling

•What the #$%^ is an STL File?

•Workflow & Understanding Scale

•Knowing limits of technology to save money

// case study Bernardon Haber

Halloway Philadelphia, PA

Building Cities

To Scale

How to Model for 3D Printing

•Consider your final scale

•Use Booleans as much as possible

•Make sure every item is a true solid object

•“cut” the model in uninteresting spots to make seam repairs easily

No Mass

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are needed to see this picture.

.STL File• Sterelithography

• Stupid Triangles and Lot’s of them

It’s just a mesh....

Tears in the meshTears in the mesh

Bummer Dude:-(

problem surfaces are in yellowproblem surfaces are in yellow

// case study SketchUp Boulder, CO

Spot the problem areas....

Suggested workflow:1.Design at full-scale in RHINO

2.Have a second RHINO window open at scale you want to 3D print

3.Design > Copy, Paste > Check surfaces and edges at scale.

1.Too small? Naked Edges? Normals?

4.Eliminate delicate features and consider other methods

// case study ‘Design

Your Dwelling’SketchUp & Dwell

Magazine

Thanks for Your TimeQuestions?

e: jake@sweetonioncreations.com