Since my Mars print was quite successful, but a bit wibbly I thought I'd do a print of the Earth. Mars was wobbly because I tried to print the whole sphere, and the southern pole of the sphere does...
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Since my Mars print was quite successful, but a bit wibbly I thought I'd do a print of the Earth. Mars was wobbly because I tried to print the whole sphere, and the southern pole of the sphere does...
Thanks! But thanks mostly to NASA who put up the DEM greyscale image of the whole globe.
It took me several attempts to understand the thicknesses which worked in white ABS and in orange ABS. This ugly photo without interior lighting will give you an idea of what worked:
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You know those ceramic candle holders which have the same effect as lithophanes, but with a candle inside them. Well I thought I'd do a LED version:
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I've printed a 3D Mars complete with mountains, plains and valleys.
http://3dprintboard.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5027&stc=1
I used PhotoToMesh (bowl shape). Full instructions here:
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It does cylinders, spheres and surfaces of revolution:
http://www.ransen.com/phototomesh/3D-Printed-STL-Gallery.htm
http://www.ransen.com/phototomesh/3D-printing-stl-file-creation.htm
Here's my experience of lithophanes on the XYZPrinting DaVinci1
http://owenransen.blogspot.it/2015/02/lithophanes-i-can-only-learn-by.html
The machine had stopped with an error message in the panel, the infamous 0040, was flashing its internal light, and "beeping". I assumed that it knew what it was diong, but I'm glad to know I can...
Apparently the SD memory card can often get dislodged during transport. The solution is not mentioned in the documents as far as I can see.
What you have to do is open the back panel, 2 screws,...
Before trying my own STL files I thought I'd get it to do a demo. It stopped and gave me a 0040 (cannot read\write SD card) error. XYZprinting said they'll reply to my support request within 3...