Yes from my experience I encountered the issue in Freebies.  Glad to hear this has been resolved for most content.  Should people forward issues such as this to a specific person to resolve?

Thanks,

                 CG

My project is inspired by "Gullivers Travels".  As such, imagine a large person, tied down by people of tiny scale.  So whatever method (rope, chain, etc) is used to tie the subject down: 1.  There would be a lot of it and 2. It would be present multiple times.  The 50ft chain was the solution.

I'll look into the alternatives you've all provided.

A sincere thanks to everyone that chimed in.  :)

Truly appreciated.

-CG

when thinking about what's missing, one word comes to mind,.."moist"

Quote - I'm anxious for the day when 3D printing is lower-priced with higher quality. One of the hobbies that I used to have was porcelain doll making. However, unfired porcelain generates a LOT of dust that is nasty for the lungs.

I just think it would be REALLY awesome to create a very cool character in Poser (say, Nefertiti or something Egyptian); and then use a 3D printer to manufacture the head, hands, and feet that could be put onto a poseable armature; and then create the costumes with regular fabrics. It's an idea I've had for quite some time. I'm hoping I can afford a printer before I retire, though! LOL

Assuming you create a set of meshes (rigged poser characters, props) that are "waterproof", there are many  possibilities I believe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-JOJ91p9Wc

If you can endure the advertisement, this gives some interesting info on the z printer, which is extremely flexible in what it can create.  The vid will answer some of the questions a few of you have posted in this thread.

Quote - I'm also curious about the smoothness of Curious George's image from the $10k printer... as smoothing is applied in the render, would this just be achieved by a very high polygon count?

Not sure of the specifics of how the printers are able to achieve a smoother surface.  Definitely a high-poly count is required for curved surfaces I'd think.

My use of the fabrication would be for glass casting.  There are many applications for fabrication but, for the artists, mass production of a single piece (as others mentioned) definitely comes to mind.

Quote -  Give this a read through... CLICK

Fantastic article, thank you for sharing!

The pic in the previous post showed output from a $5k printer,....This is output from a $10k printer:

Note the banding hasn't been completely removed, but it's less pronounced than the output from the 5k printer. 

Quote - Nancy, if you are talking about the PVC statuettes I don't think those are 3d printing.  This european company does a form 3d printing for WoW.

If you were to do 3d printing you need to know what kind of detail the printing can hold and frankly if you start in poser it might be best to import your objects over to your modeler and start rebuilding it there, using your original object and a template.

Some creative shrinkwrapping comes to mind as a possible (quick) solution for those using poser-sourced models?

Note the quality of printing below, see the small bands/ridges across the surface?  This is what other posters were referring to when they said you may have to apply sanding to the object once it has been printed.  Not all printers have this kind of output, but this is what you'll probably encounter on the low-end of 3d printing.

Quote - If you're considering spending 750 bucks for such a device, at least spend a fair amount of time learning modeling - I can pretty much guarantee you that almost no Poser content will work with this technology without truly extensive modification (might as well model something yourself at that point).

I actually import and then rigg.  I don't think this will be a problem.  I only brought it up because the process was first brought to my attention via EFrontier's mention during Poser 6 or 7.

After doing some research (btw, thanks to lmckenzie's response), I found that this can be expensive to have done by a 3rd party.  At the same time, there are now home "kits" that allow you to build your own fabrication device for (US) $750. 

As Miss Nancy and Pakled mentioned, the piece is fabricated in layers, from the bottom up.  You can achieve some fairly complex shapes with this method.  You can also use different materials in the same device for fabrication.

Some of the more commercial fabrication systems (which are amazing to watch btw) are as low as $5k and are no bigger than an office xerox machine (some also fabricate in color,...)

Really amazing technology that's developing.

It has also been emphasized the requirements of the 3d model being fabricated (all normals facing forward, minimum thickness allowed for any form,...etc).   I'm very tempted to purchase the home system, but it does have limitations on the size of the object being fabricated.

I want to thank lmckenzie again for his response, I'll look into those sites, they offer some attractive pricing for my needs.

-CG

Ahh ok I see now, it doesn't look like hair is rendered with "SHADOW ONLY" checked.  What up with that?

For poser to do this, you would have to have poser break a rendered area up into segments, each segment sent to a node, node is rendered, sent back to mothership (main system) and reassembled.

It'd be cool if you could do this with python.

I had this problem as well!  It was my ATI drivers! ARRRGH!!!

I upgraded to v8.6 (DRIVER ONLY INSTALL) and used the traytools app (from guru3d.com).  The traytools app does pretty much everything the full fledged ATI control panel does, but with much less overhead.  Poser has been solid ever since.

Ciao,
              CG