My Printed Model

Part of this project was to use some of the latest facilities in our college: i.e the 3D printers.

Since my project did not have so much application in modeled geometry I decided to print out the letter of one letter of my Sky Arts Logo.

Unfortunately the letters in my animation comprises grouped nurbs. In order to print out a successful model, I would need to convert my nurbs into a polygon.

However, I did run in to some trouble- after modeling it in the appropriate way then eventually opened it in netfabb I ran into a very strange error.

After troubleshooting all of the possible answers indicated that something was not quite right with the model.

I guessed that the only difference between my model and other peoples models was that mine had been converted from a polygon and that i may not have payed attention to the face normals.

Surely enough, when I analyzed the model in Maya again I found that the model and face normals varying in direction.

Once I fixed the root of the problem, I re-imported the necessary file to be printed with no problems at all.

The next day my model was successfully. Here is a picture of my printed model...and me!