Issues Resolved!

I went and saw Brad today with regard to my ‘Grasshopper’ splicing issues and to ask for help with my mesh problems.  The file fro Project 3 was very easy to splice, all I needed to do was ensure that I had put the right figures into the correct places.  5 minutes after I walked in the door, the third project was being laser cut.

The laser cut 3mm black acrylic turn out brilliantly except for one small problem; the circles that I had placed on my piece had been cut out slightly skewed.  The top and bottom circles were fine however which was all that mattered, they will cover the ones in the middle.

With the issues that I was having with Project 4, Brad and I tried to turn the “finished” piece into one single mesh in Rhino 5 however it too a very long time and was unsuccessful.  Instead we opened the file in a separate program called “Magiks” and by simply pressing FixWizard we managed to fix all of the problems and create a single mesh that could be 3D printed.

I brought the file to Jason so that it could be wax printed.  The initial file, in full scale printing at high quality was estimated to take 106 hours.  Understandable Jason was not so keen to have a print that would take so long.  To try and rectify the problem, we scaled down the piece by 30%, bringing the wall thickness to 1mm.  We also set the print to the lowest quality.  The estimated time on this print was 36 hours, a figure Jason was far happier with.