Bike Badge for 3D Printing

[d12dozr]

Here is a project I finished this week...the request was to turn a logo image into a model that could be 3D printed and used as a badge attached to the 31.6mm head-tube on a bike. I was able to get 2D DWG's from the original Illustrator file, but in the end (because of extra/uneven line segment headaches) I would have been better off drawing all but the lion rampant in SU.
Edit: Changed griffin to lion rampant...thanks TIG

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[Bryan K]

Nice!

[TIG]

Very impressive.
Did you model larger and scale down to avoid the problem of creating very small faces.

By the way it's not a 'griffin' it's a 'lion rampant' - symbolizing 'fierce courage' in heraldry

[d12dozr]

Thanks, guys. Yes TIG, I modeled at 100x scale and still had problems with missing faces after running Shape Bender (BTW, getting the correct arc was kinda hard ). Strangely, if I tried running Shape Bender at 1000x scale, SU crashed every time, but 100x scale was OK

Thanks for the lion rampant correction

[Rich O Brien]

What'd make this pop even more is if you had an embossed image to run BitmaptoMesh on. Just on the griffin. Especially if it's getting printed in 3D.

Other than that it's some lovely modeling Marcus

[pixelmonkey380]

chris<pixelmonkey>:D

[bmike]

nicely done!

i had to bend an entire house (client wanted to see 2 versions...)
i modeled the 'straight' version first, then used FredoScale to bend the house.

windows, doors, stairs, trim, etc. i broke the house into pieces, and bent each piece with the same reference points and angles to match a radius that i pre-tested. time consuming to get the setup right - but once that was done - it saved me from re-drawings the entire thing on and arc.

i'll have to look at shapebender...!

[d12dozr]

Thanks, guys. Rich, I agree, and although it didn't work out on this project, I am planning on trying that method soon.

Mike, I think you'll find Shapebender to work nicely, you may need to explode any nested components down. It takes a looong time for complex models, ~1 hour for this model (38,782 triangles), but the results are excellent. Thanks, Chris!

[Richard]

WOW Marcus - What a funky little job! And well donw to boot!

I always think it weird the stuff that pops up here and there that people are requested to do!

Who would have thought something like that would land on your lap!!

[d12dozr]

Thanks, Richard! I really went looking for it (in a different forum), I've been interested in 3D printing and related opportunities lately.