Take special orders from people where they give the coords to a structure they want printed. Make the digital 3d model and sell it to them. easy way to make money!
Dude! Someone order the 3D printer here! It'd be awesome if someone fixed it to be more print-friendly and actually printed it out :wink.gif:
Great minds think alike, and I already did: see this page. However, like it says in the description there, if you actually printed this thing out you'd be $419.34 poorer and end up with 66 separate parts: a lot of the bits are not physically connected to the main assembly, even after doing "weld" and "corner tip" tests in Mineways. Still, fun to show here.
Yes, it's a Windows program, but I know that it works on Linux using Wine. Mac OSX also supports Wine, so I'm hoping it works there, too: please give it a try and let us know. Finally, I suspect Mineways would also run under Parallels or similar programs. Mineways is not graphics intensive - just 2D bitmaps, no real 3D - so I'm hoping it'll run under the Mac somehow just fine.
Alternately, port it, if you're really feeling frisky; it's open-source, and the original minutor program runs on the Mac and Linux, so it just takes some front-end work on someone's part. The original minutor Linux & Mac files are included in the source download, I haven't messed with those.
Update: someone verified that Mineways works fine on a Mac using Wine. If someone wants to try it under VirtualBox, great, and please let me know what you find.
Check this out, on Flickr. The other images in the group are also worthwhile. That particular model wasn't made with Mineways, but is printed on the same color 3D printer that Shapeways uses.
I've uploaded . Let me know if there's anything you'd like to see covered in another tutorial. About the only thing I'd like to pass on is the trick for tree removal from a print model: chop one wood block out of the trunk, so the tree is floating off the ground. Now the "Delete floating objects" feature will automatically remove the tree from the model (assuming the leaves don't connect to a wall or something else), without you needing to chop it all down.
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Huh. Now this could definitely have potential! Although I do have to wonder what it might cost. I mean, if it's printed somewhere away from your home, then surely it's going to cost some money. But it wouldn't cost a dime to use a 3D printer of your own. Downside to this would be that 3D printers and the materials are very costly--above $300.00. Still, it's probably worth the cost, I'm sure of it.
Take special orders from people where they give the coords to a structure they want printed. Make the digital 3d model and sell it to them. easy way to make money!
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Well, the program's free; it's those pesky atoms that cost money.
By the way, I've added a whole section to the Mineways page about keeping it cheap, since the models can definitely get pricey.
Great minds think alike, and I already did: see this page. However, like it says in the description there, if you actually printed this thing out you'd be $419.34 poorer and end up with 66 separate parts: a lot of the bits are not physically connected to the main assembly, even after doing "weld" and "corner tip" tests in Mineways. Still, fun to show here.
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Curse PremiumYes, it's a Windows program, but I know that it works on Linux using Wine. Mac OSX also supports Wine, so I'm hoping it works there, too: please give it a try and let us know. Finally, I suspect Mineways would also run under Parallels or similar programs. Mineways is not graphics intensive - just 2D bitmaps, no real 3D - so I'm hoping it'll run under the Mac somehow just fine.
Alternately, port it, if you're really feeling frisky; it's open-source, and the original minutor program runs on the Mac and Linux, so it just takes some front-end work on someone's part. The original minutor Linux & Mac files are included in the source download, I haven't messed with those.
Update: someone verified that Mineways works fine on a Mac using Wine. If someone wants to try it under VirtualBox, great, and please let me know what you find.