PC & 3D Printer

[j2080]

Am going to make a spend on one. Seems HP Sprout, Dremel next gen 3D printer, and scanning platform is the way to go. Right?

Assume one has scanned a 3D object into the PC.

Assume you’ve made a model car. Both right and left sides are slightly different, per your working on both halves. The right side will be different than the left, because of your human imperfections!

So, could one “cut” the scanned toy car in half, using PC software. And copy the right side, to be duplicated on the left?

Could be most any object made by hand. Which you would like to perfect.

By making sure both sides are a MIRROR of one another. You want to mirror the right side of the model, to be duplicated on the left, the same way. So when 3D printing, both sides of the model are identical.

Hope this made some sense.

Thanking you in advance . . .

[Isleofyou3D]

Not sure I quite understand you but yes this is certainly possible in 3D software like solid works for example. If you got the measurements perfect you could probably do it in 123d too.

[Alexandre_16]

Blender.org add modifier/mirror

[YOUto3D]

I know Maya has a “mirror geometry” feature. Just make sure you when cut the model in half, it has a nice clean edge where the seam will be. Place your model with the cut seam lined up either along Y=0 or X=0 then mirror geometry along the appropriate axis.

This works great with nice and clean quad geometry, not sure how it would handle tessellated scan data though :-/

[gomezjj3]

Use Netfabb to cut your part. Precise cut. Save file as .st . Then open file in 123D design. Copy and paste a mirror image. Export as .stl and send to slicer. If file is too big for your print bed recut using Netfabb and save both parts as separate .stl filed.

[AryaVenugopalan]

Personally, I think the dremel printer is OK. The customizability is very low and you can only print PLA and ABS. However of this is your first printer, then go ahead.

cheers,

Arya

[j2080]

Appreciate the replies, found them helpful.