A few updates for this week! I successfully printed the first half of the project. The print took roughly 14 hours and required no supports other than a brim. Because of this, the print turned out to already smooth and needed no further sanding or prep. This made my life so much easier, and the job much easier for the printer as well. I think that this is incredibly uncanny, and especially because it is to scale it is very strange. Images of finished product #1: I also feel that the4 hardware on the print will also work well with hanging materials such as hooks and nails. Despite this however, there are still several setbacks, initally I scheduled my print for thursday, but I ended up going over my bookings time and so, I needed to cancel. That brought be to saturday, which was the next time I had prepared for the printing of the arm. However, the lab RAN OUT of fillament! I didn't expect this to happen but unfortunately, production will have to be moved to this following week. Th...
This weeks updates This week has been hectic. I fell behind for a moment there and I even considered abandoning my project completely. There were several times that I sliced my objects on Prusa and realized I had nearly 30 hours of printing ahead of me. This was daunting, yet, it did appear that the face would be no issue on the printer so long as no other students interfered or any other inconceivable thing could happen. I decided to fire up the prints and walk away, for my sanity. I also had a considerable amount of modelling ahead of me, with the issue of my scans having several holes in them. At first, I considered using a powerful system such as blender to remedy the designs and doing my best to follow tutorials online for the clay tools, but, after a lot of struggle I ultimately chose to return to mesh mixer, even if it was a lesser version after a THREE year hiatus. The process absolutely had its growing pains. Time after time I experimented with each brush to ...