3d printing

hello--3D printing with QC

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Hi guys,

i'm a architecture grad student, i'm using big six-axis robots and dlp projectors/UVcurable resin to 3D print room-scale objects. it's possible by having QC update the image on the projector in real time. its my first time with QC, i'm using v002's screen capture plugin, which is excellent. Now I'm trying to dilate and erode my screen capture in real time. is this possible? am I missing a simple way to do it, I don't see anything.

Stereo Lithography (Composition by dust)

Author: dust
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Date: 2011.07.25
Compatibility: 10.6, 10.7
Categories:
Required plugins:
stereo lithography plugin by dust

here is a patch you can use for stereo lithography or 3d printing. what this does is take a mesh and export it to CAD format for 3d printing. feel free to use it for any other purposes. you can open the file in mesh lab and export to obj or what ever.

some other interesting uses are to plugin your kinect and print to a repRap printer. http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page . included is a test export patch and a kinect structured light, depth to world extrusion map example. i made this so i can output 3d scans. have not printed with it yet.

make sure to pay attention to the right - hand - rule if your procedurally generating your vertices, normals, and indices. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-hand_rule the stereo lithography format requires the right hand rule where other programs like unity require meshes to be left hand ruled.