3D printing_Rhino editing mesh
Happy New Year everyone!
We are embarking on our first attempt at 3D printing our ArtecEva scanned boatparts at the Norwegian Maritime Museum.
In order to emboss a number and, make treenails and iron nail holes in the meshes I am importing the scans into Rhino and using the Boolean difference tool. In many cases this is straight forward. However some of the meshes are deemed unworthy by Rhino(7).
I have been experimenting with the QuadRemesh tool to make a simplified version of the parts. Has anyone else tried this with a good result? Or anything else to solve the problem?
Kind regards,
Sarah
Greetings again,
I found that the problem I was having with the remesh tool was not a settings issue. It seems that the loss of some mm from pointy edges is a problem that is being worked on.
https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/quad-remesh-misses-edge-on-open-mesh/182298
On the boat parts I am losing at most 0.11 mm so I don't think it rules out using quadremesh if it is going to save a lot of time...
Hi Sarah
For lack of a better idea, I just use ReduceMesh to bring the mesh down to a comfortable size.
For engraving ID nos. (not embossing - that would get in the way during assembly), we have, so far, opted to let the printing facility do this using their printer software (or whatever it is they use to pack the print chamber). This is based on two things: 1) Rhino is really, really slow doing this (as opposed to the facility's software) - or at least I have failed to find a quick way to do this. 2) more often than not, the ID no. needs a part no. suffix added anyway as the objects are longer than the print chamber. It's all about saving time and money!