WIRED MAGAZINE 3D COVER PRINT

liam887

What do you think the differential cost would have been between printing and making in a wood shop? And even better why not create a virtual model and PhotoShop into the chefs hand. That would have been the easiest approach. I am very much for using SU for virtual illustrations so I am just interested in your approach to the problem.

It was last minute from idea to product in only a few hours, it would have been hard to find a wood shop to get it done in that timeframe in central London.

I made the E in only a few minutes and sent the file to the printer, then picked it up a few hours later and it went on a flight with the team to the shoot somewhere in Spain I think.

The cover is actually animated on the digital version so it easier to work with a real object than try to splice in a virtual one. You can download it here, iPad only for now: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/wired-magazine-uk/id400701660?mt=8

liam887

Thanks, I also did a feature opener in the same issue. In print it was a double page spread and on the ipad version shown here its just a single page.
Not shown here i actually completed the entire facility even though only a small percentage was used. I dont have any shots but it looked similar to this: http://solarpowerpanels.ws/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/solar-thermal_ORxjh_69.jpg

Its a solar farm, made in SU and then they used the wireframe as part of the design.

solo

Great stuff Liam...as always.

chedda

Congratulations on being published. I have seen polystyrene being cut by a hot wire for something simple like this.

dale

Great Lliam. Congratulations
Wired is such a good mag.

EarthMover

Very Cool!!! Congrats. Very encouraging to see.

liam887

@earthmover said:

Very Cool!!! Congrats. Very encouraging to see.

Thanks - I think as the printing tech gets cheaper we will see a lot more exciting things!

Hieru

Great work....and I really hope that Trimble reads posts like this and makes 3D printing fully integrated with future versions of SU.

liam887

@hieru said:

Great work....and I really hope that Trimble reads posts like this and makes 3D printing fully integrated with future versions of SU.

In a way it already is - you can export directly in a recognised file format ready for print.
Perhaps if SU included some pre flight checks to make sure the model was ok and any delicate potential trouble sections got flagged up?

hellnbak

Congrats, well done

Bryan K

Congrats! I had my first professional 3D print used earlier this year for an international phone game company.

Again, congratulations!