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Finn the Human: Printing, Documentation, and KeyShot… (FINN)ALLY

(Finn)ally, the time has come! 3D printing, at last!

I printed using the clear filament and let me tell you… It’s good perhaps for test prints but I would never want to use this to hand in any final model! The second print with white filament has much better resolution even though the file was exactly the same.

In order to print my second model quicker than the first I detached the head and changed the body orientation. In the future I wouldn’t rotate the body- having the belly down meant a rougher print. Moving forward I will always try to orientate my model to have the least amount of struture material BUT keeping the bottom at the bottom so that the rough print is not visible.

KEYSHOT:

A really simple rendering tool! I enjoyed the selection of colours and materials available AND the edibility of those (saving them too).

 

(One tip I’ll leave here about the Tinkerine 3D Printers that we have access to… We should make proper model files BUT when printing with these printers you don’t have to close the surfaces! The pink lines are not the end of you!! The resolution of these machines is not precise enough to require that last step.)

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Olaf Final Progress

Last Wednesday, we had printed our models. We tried printing in white for 3 hours but it never worked so we ended up printing in clear. Once we had the toys, we noticed a few things that were off so we went back onto Rhino and tweaked this and that to make it more accurate. Then after talking with Edward and Andy, we decided to do something fun with the model for our renders and to hopefully print a second time in white. We decided to play with Olaf losing his head, both in different ways, because that is something he does in the movie. We used those for our renders, but unfortunately we never got a chance to print them because our studios printers both broke and using the white PLA was never fully resolved by anyone. It worked for some and not for others and we thought we shouldn’t waste printing time that others might need when it might not even come out. Hopefully once our printers are back and working we will be able to print these ones.

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