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Did they, possibly, say something about how much $$$$$ (or, rather, €€€€€ or £££££) it was going to cost to produce as a solid? Since they price on volume of material, I can suppose that would get my attention.
No price was mentioned. In fact the only thing the e-mail said related to the model was that it should be hollow.
Shapeways usually mentions the need for the design to be watertight. Whatever is on the inside of the model's surfaces will be filled with resin. If that is how your model was designed (the entire outside shell made a watertight brick with hollow space inside, they should have had no problem printing is as such a solid brick. Expensive, but doable. Unless someone on their team realized that the shell should be printed using thin walls, with the inner space being free of resin, or hollow. Did you redesign your model to have some thickness to its walls with the outside and inside being open space? Sort of like an inverted bathtub - the walls have thickness but the center is devoid of material.
Something new on the Sub this week:...
No mention of any problem with "watertight" design. The revised model is hollow. I set the thickness by calculating what a 1/16" wall would scale to in 1:160. I made the walls 10" thick. I haven't submitted the revised file to Shapeways yet, still working on some bugs...Still wondering a bit that the detail will vanish when scaled down. I can change the scale in my software and still see the detail, but that doesn't mean it will print out.
Doing some breaking in an my Cab Forward I just received back from IMRC. Now the question is to weather or not to weather????
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