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Companion Cubesby *Athey

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Portal Companion Cube! But the dice version, so it's got numbers on the sides, with a Heart for the #1.

Would you believe me if I told you that a portion of this model was made in zbrush? It seems silly, but it was. lol. The original model was made by my husband, out of a zillion intersecting objects. He originally made it for Shapeways prints, to be printed out the standard size of a dice.

He got the idea in his head this weekend to print a bigger version on our home machine now, and when I went into ReplicatorG to create the gcode for printing, it had an anurism over all the intersecting geo.

I could have spent ages trying to manually clean it up and make it airtight, but instead I just exported an obj, imported it into zbrush, and did a single Dynamesh pass, which retopos the whole thing in quads as a single airtight mesh. The mesh is insanely dense, but this is zbrush we're talking about, so no suprise there.

I descimated it A LOT and re-exported it into Maya, set the proper scale (zbrush's stl exporter is shit for getting accurate scale), and THEN popped it back into ReplicatorG to get the Gcode built.

Muuuuuch nicer with the cleaned up mesh. haha.

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Two different print approaches were used for these -

One of them was printed as a single solid object, but with using raft support so that the bottom could print properly. Afterwards we cleaned off the raft support and filed and sanded down the rough bits.

The other was printed in two pieces - cut in half down the middle, so the flat middle side could be flat on the print platform, and afterwards, they were glued together with superglue.
Unfortunately, the one that was split in half and glued, had some curling issues on the ‘flat’ ends, so they weren’t totally flat. AND the superglue took hold super-fast, so it’s not perfectly aligned.
Learning experience.

Technical crap:

Machine: Makerbot Replicator (Dual extruder version)
Infill: 10%
Shells: 0
Layer height: .2mm
Speed: 40

If you want one, you can buy them here: [link]

The version we're selling is the one that was printed as a solid object, so no gluing mishaps.

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~NeonDragonHeart Jul 26, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

I made a weighted storage cube in the Replicator

~Lefthandedhero Jul 25, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

The process was fun to read. Thanks for sharing.

~PortalFan4prile Jul 24, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

oh por dios! quiero uno.. realmente.. quiero uno o.o

~thejoe2o Jul 24, 2012

i just love this

~Cryrid Jul 24, 2012 Digital Artist

"Would you believe me if I told you that a portion of this model was made in zbrush? "

Of course, it's quite a powerful tool that can make quick work out of many things : )

*Hogia Jul 24, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

I wish I had a 3D printer, but they're so friggin' expensive ;A;

*Athey Jul 24, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

The one I have cost $2,000, so yes, they can be pretty pricey (the professional ones are still around $60,000 though) but if you're willing and able to build the thing yourself from parts you buy online, you can actually make a RepRap printer for as little as $350.

*Hogia Jul 24, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Wow, building one sounds tempting.

~chickenmobile Jul 23, 2012

Was this printed with a 3d printer? Cool!

*Athey Jul 24, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

Yup. I have a Makerbot Replicator ([link]) - the dual extruder version.

has a journal up right now with some demo vids of 3d printers.

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