{"id":511,"date":"2014-11-05T14:14:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dm2ends\/?p=511"},"modified":"2014-11-05T14:15:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:15:34","slug":"drogon-update-3d-printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dm2ends\/2014\/11\/05\/drogon-update-3d-printing\/","title":{"rendered":"DROGON Update: 3D Printing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After watching some failed print attempts (see above photo), I was concerned that my print would have many unforeseen complications. But, overall, it went fairly well. I had to restart twice because the filament got tangled, but otherwise the print went smoothly and took about 3.5 hours.<\/p>\n

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My dad sometimes tells the story of the first time he used a fax machine, and how astounding it was at the time. I feel that my experience printing Drogon was similar, and that one day, in a not-so-distant future\u00a0where 3D printing \u00a0will be ubiquitous, the memory of the confusion and excitement of my first print will\u00a0deeply amuse me. I’m excited to be at a point where I feel more comfortable utilizing the 3D printer and I’m curious to see how I will apply this tool later on in studio.<\/p>\n

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Removing the scaffolding proved very tedious but ultimately doable. An alternative strategy I might have used would be to print the head and body separately (and reduce the amount of scaffolding needed). My rationale was that I wanted to make sure the model could stand upright and was hoping that the Tinkerine suite software would calculate the weighting if I printed it as once piece. This could have been something to explore in multiple prints.<\/p>\n

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Lessons learned:<\/p>\n

-Don’t scale in Tinkerine. Also, having consulted with various classmates, it appears that Tinkerine has a tendency to tamper with scale, or just that variations in scale happen across a variety of printers. But still, scale in Rhino into mm before importing into Tinkerine.
\n-Though this is probably obvious, it warrants stating: I would\u2019ve done a test print of the model beforehand. There were time constraints and issues with the printers, but I waited until I was done modelling\u00a0to 3D print. In hindsight, I would\u2019ve printed a crappy rough prototype ahead of time to troubleshoot some things (ie scaling) proactively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After watching some failed print attempts (see above photo), I was concerned that my print would have many unforeseen complications. But, overall, it went fairly well. I had to restart twice because the filament got tangled, but otherwise the print went smoothly and took about 3.5 hours. My dad sometimes tells the story of the … Continue reading DROGON Update: 3D Printing<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2082],"tags":[91457,1125794,548272,1125792,1125783,1125818],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-11","tag-3d","tag-3d-modelling","tag-3d-printing","tag-anna-murynka","tag-drogon","tag-week-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dm2ends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dm2ends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dm2ends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dm2ends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dm2ends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dm2ends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dm2ends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dm2ends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dm2ends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dm2ends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}