Forum: 3D Modeling


Subject: Modeling for 3D Printing

thomllama opened this issue on Feb 14, 2016 ยท 45 posts


LuxXeon posted Sun, 14 February 2016 at 12:33 PM

thomllama posted at 12:30PM Sun, 14 February 2016 - #4254997

ya, my printer was $350.. and I get to watch it print.. Shape ways is OK.. but it always had issues with wall thickness as most of my stuff is small sized for flying RC quadcopter.. need to have 2mm or thinner walls which I could get shape ways software to allow.. though I didn't try all that has either

The minimum wall thickness depends entirely on the material you are offering. I haven't had a problem with most of my objects, and most of them are quite complex. The plastic materials can be printed with minimum thickness of 0.8mm walls. Metal material is where things need to be thicker. 3mm for unsupported parts, which makes sense, but you can get away with less than that as long as there's other reinforcing support in that area.

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