and here it is... body modeled in Sketchup and printed as well as the legs. Body was modeled again since the images higher in the thread were posted.. some areas added stuff for strength and knocked out to save weight. Anti vibration upper plate model directly as part of the body to save weight over a screw on attachment

the camera sun shade was models in Hexagon and printed..

I just use macs.. became a non issue for me years ago :) Used to run both.. Macs ALWAYS came out cheaper to run after less than a year or use. and ALWAYS out run a PC with little or no "playing under the hood" I do run a virus program scan like once a month.. never had an issue. Personally, I'd rather get work done with my computer than to have to work on it :) But this is going to change the direction of this conversation LOLOLOLl

No, unfortunately my printer went back for a replacement.

ldgilman posted at 7:05PM Tue, 16 February 2016 - #4255387

Good thing you had an explanation, I thought it was a trailer hitch for some truck.

LOL

Ya, thought was really a sweet thing for Apple to have right in the base OS. Really convenient once you discover it.

ya know what's funny.. My 3D printer never properly worked.. had issues since day one... but shipped it back just friday I guess and I'm totally Jones'n now with out it LOL it's just so cool to envision something.. draw it up then print it out :)

LOL.. like I said.. don't bother I already made one ;) Was just screwing with ya :)

oh ya, and the mount holes also have a 1mm lip on the top side..

Now I'm gunna screw with ya.. cuz there is one more thing you are missing.. there is a 1/2 mm lip in it going from arm to arm going up the length of it ;)

Also, on the top side, there is a step in the arms circles that receive the lip on the anti vibe balloons..

LuxXeon posted at 7:02PM Sun, 14 February 2016 - #4255057

The inset on the front arms was a little tricky at first too, and required a few more edge loops than I thought. Fun shape to work on though.

LuxXeon posted at 2:46PM Sun, 14 February 2016 - #4255025

Here are the parts of the object where the STL check is reporting issues (in red). These are double faces that aren't welded (because they're double faces). Unfortunately, I've come across a lot of these issues with objects exported from Sketchup. I'm sure there's a way to repair them there, but the issue is vertices that can not be welded.

ya, I've found it's the way ketchup works with reversed faces and the way it displays them. 1st off it starts with the back are up.. so until you give it some 3rd dimension thickness you're working on the wrong side.
2nd it uses white and light gray as face colors when modeling, the gray is almost the same color as it shows for shadows so it's near impossible to tell which is which.. Learned I go and made a black starter page, and make forward faces bright green and back faces bright pink.. now it's REAL easy to see what is what.. :)

LuxXeon posted at 2:47PM Sun, 14 February 2016 - #4255026

Oh I see you fixed it already. Cool. Yeah, the problem is that Netfabb can not fix those kinds of issues with the free version. You'll need to upgrade it to do the manual corrections, and then save out.

yaaaaaaa... don't remember what the "quoted price" was .. but was ridiculous for me to be lazy and not just go back and fix the object in the Original app ;)

worked great :) again.. the point original being made was that the OS can tell you generally if a file is OK for the printer (at least on Mac's)

na.. already fixed and printed one..

yup.. Ketchup.. Honestly, i learned in Sketchup forums it just needs to be "grouped" and then the whole thing becomes a solid instead of individual faces and vertices.. or so it was explained to me.. anyway.. LOL the point of the original post was to show that a bad file can be seen inside the basic OS display system so any corrections can be made before even trying to import to a printer :) but man i want to figure out Netfabb as it seems to be the go to fixer..

LuxXeon posted at 2:13PM Sun, 14 February 2016 - #4255017

Go to Part > Export Part > STL

nope "part" menu away where once you hit the repair button.. the menu disappears..

it says it repaired it.. shows it did.. just did simple repair.. but there isn't an option to export or save as anything other than Netfabb file format.. and it says it won't save the repair.. kinda strange