Robert_Ripley opened this issue on Sep 13, 2014 · 46 posts
bantha posted Sun, 14 September 2014 at 5:18 AM
The model on Thingiverse needs the V4 OBJ for decoding, I have the Aikiko character by JoeBushido as well, so this print should be legal, since I don't plan to give it to someone else.
I usually don't print statues, this was a test for small layers (0.05 mm layer height with a 0.4 mm nozzle), and it uses a very translucent ABS material, so the photo isn't really good. But that's what's possible with an FLD printer. Since the layers are pretty thin, this small print took 6 hours.
You need a watertight model for printing. So, no flurry hair made from polygon strips or (worse) splines, no seperate eyes, clothing needs to have thickness, no intersections, normals in the right direction. Poser models aren't build that way. You can use ZBrush or Blender to make a mesh printable, mainly you have to make a big blob out of it, without any internal stuctures and without any breaks or openings. Dynameshing the figure in ZBrush works, there are modifiers in Blender which can do similar things.
Basically, you can do it. But making the figures printable needs work, and I don't know if I would be allowed to give a print of a Poser figure away, without infringing a copyright. Not a problem with Antonia, I guess, but giving out printed DAZ figures could be problematic.
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