leather-guy opened this issue on Jan 06, 2015 · 14 posts
leather-guy posted Tue, 06 January 2015 at 6:39 PM
Hi, All, I just got a Da Vinci 1 3D printer, and I need it primarily for one project.
I've looked around here at Renderosity and I don't find any 3D printing specific forum, so I'm going to ask here.
I need the printer to create raised transfer patterns. I want to 3D print a flat plane with raised ridges that correspond to my drawings so I can transfer them (in reverse) to other media. I have access to several 3D modeling programs (all legal) that I purchased some time ago, but haven't had any real time to become familiar with.
My main question is "Which of the programs I have would lend itself best to converting my drawings to a 3D mesh of a raised (very low relief) transfer plate?"
I spent some time with Lightwave (my copy is 7.5) long ago, and I found it really easy to convert various fonts to 3D form, but that was quite some time ago.
I have legal copies of Silo 2, Shade 8, Hex 2.5, Carrara 8, Pegasus, Curvy 3D, and possibly more. any resulting files need to be converted to STL files to print.
I was going to work on the project at my leisure over the next 8 weeks of "vacation" (I'm self employed, and this is my slow season), but I got a call to help a friend with a work crunch that will cut my free time down to a few hours a week until I need to get busy with my own work again.
Any hints or suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks ~Jerry / leather-guy