Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: OT, Kinda - Home 3D rapid prototyping fabricator may kick-start home revolution

leather-guy opened this issue on Jan 11, 2007 ยท 16 posts


EricJ posted Sat, 13 January 2007 at 3:36 PM

Quote - Practically, it might be a bit awkward to get from a Poser model to something a machine like this could use. It might need to used a single-piece clothed figure, for instance, and how would it handle overhangs? Also, I doubt the durability of the models. I don't think you're going to get the final product out of this. You could get something you could use to make a mould from. For instance, the cast-resin models that are sold to people who wargame with model soldiers. Or maybe garden gnomes? The comparisons with the early microcomputer kits are fair, I think. We're not yet even at the stage of the Commodore PET or the Tandy TRS-80.

There is a Shade export filter for sale at Content Paradise that will export shade to the format read by the RP machines. So you can import a poser model using Shade's import features and then export for Rping.

There are a number of places that will take the file and produce it for you. It's a bit pricey for me though so I haven't looked into it too much.