YES, YES, YES, TIG!!!!!! Merci!!! cela a fonctionné. J'espère que cela va fonctionner sur mes modèles plus complexes.

Mille merci j'ai compris beaucoup de choses en même temps....!!!!

Bonne soirée et à bientôt si j'ai un nouveau blocage.

Merci encore TIG. 😉

Was playing with a couple of flashforges at a hackerspace yesterday - that was pretty cool.

Thanks for all your help!
It went great and I'm looking forward to doing more 3D things!

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@ely862me said:

This kind of CNC. Took me a while to build and it is still far from complete.
The Z axis travel should be over 350mm, X is 1750mm and Y is 1100mm.
These are my first real attempts. Some models done for my sister in law - she's a kindergarten teacher. And a stepper motor cover done in foam- just for testing the code.
Sorry to somehow hijacking the thread.

No I invited the thread jack. That is a very badass CNC btw.

Here are some pics of the final product. Definitely room for improvement but overall it came out very well, client happy etc.. Thank you for all the help guys, It really was invaluable!

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@cotty said:

@revelever:
Thank you for the infos. I would love to see some pictures of printed parts, do you have some which you can share?

@cotty @dukejazz
Yes I do!. Ill try and up load some later today. And infact I am going to be printing a large part soon that some folks on this forum helped me (learn to) slice up that should showcase some of the rostocks strengths. I'll keep you posted either here or in another thread.

Jim has a ply importer here somewhere...

For architectural scale models, you almost have to start from scratch or rebuild them using the existing model as a guide for the scale you want to print at. The reason is because when you scale down an existing model, you're left with tons of features that are too small to print, so you have to start over and exaggerate the size of features that are important to show, decide what needs to be left out. It's pretty easy to repeat after you've done one, because the modeling is so much simpler. I guess an analogy would be low-poly models for faraway components in a game vs. the high detail closeup objects.

Look like a well built tool

This Retouch3D tool and Dremel tool may be all we need

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That sound like an option James.

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Hi Stuart, will you be printing Dudley all in one piece, or do you want him to move? If you want him articulated, printing the pieces separately and snapping them together like a ball jointed robot afterwards is recommended, because the clearances needed to print a moving assembly in one go will leave the joints loose and sloppy.

You will want all the parts in one group of you mean to print him in one piece. I wouldn't explode everything though, or you'll end up with a non-solid mess. It's usually better to make the individual groups solid and then use the Outer Shell tool to combine them into one solid group.

If I were you, I'd make this model one piece first to get a feel for the process, and then if you want to mess around with clearances for joints and assembling pieces, make another model. Just an idea.

Thanks Rich. 😄

Hi beikaboda, welcome to the forum! Great questions.

Yes, you will need to model in a margin for the slide , usually 0.3 - 0.5mm clearance is a good starting point. You may need to adjust the margin depending on the accuracy of the printer.

For the screw, do you want it to slide in easily, or do you want the threads to 'bite' into the hole? 4mm hole for a 4mm screw is going to be a tight fit, so make it a ~0.2mm larger or smaller depending on how you want it to work. For such a tiny hole, fewer segments are better - 6 or 8 segments should be plenty.

Hope that helps!

Now that I am back on a computer I've had another look, and you have other problems.

You are using layers incorrectly.
Layers in Sketchup should only be used to control visibility and as such only groups and components should be assigned to different layers.
All raw geometry needs to be on Layer0, once you have grouped it you can assign it a layer.

To put it simply, if you explode everything down to raw geometry nothing should disappear when you turn a layer off.