Martinm
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Hello everyone,
this is a project I did some time ago. Somehow I stumbled across the gorgeous stone carvings by Matthew Simmonds: http://www.mattsimmonds.com/gallery_1.html
I immediately had the idea to re-create one of those for 3D printing and chose the "Romanesque Stone" http://www.mattsimmonds.com/romanesque_stone.html as it seemed a bit easier to guess the correct dimensions.
So this is my interpretation of his work:
Printing took around 40h on an Prusa MK2S and went through uneventfully.
Some behind-the-scenes screenshots: I modeled the architectural part in Alibre. Somehow I decided to make this thing as single part, which in the end was not too clever as there is no easy way to copy features like columns or stairs:
This was rather straightforward, the only difficulty being to guess the correct dimensions.
By far the most effort went into making a halfway realistic and printable stone structure. I used ZBrush and watched hours of stone modeling tutorials, installed countless rock alphas and in the end came up with this rock:
It took a few experiments to find out what level of detail would still be printable. The capitals are also modeled in ZBrush, also the low printer resolution did not allow for a more intricate design:
In the end, I exported the architectural model from Alibre and did a boolean intersection with the stone, creating the final printing model:
The monk sitting on the stairs in the ZBrush demo soldier with a cloak instead of his army vest.
- Martin
this is a project I did some time ago. Somehow I stumbled across the gorgeous stone carvings by Matthew Simmonds: http://www.mattsimmonds.com/gallery_1.html
I immediately had the idea to re-create one of those for 3D printing and chose the "Romanesque Stone" http://www.mattsimmonds.com/romanesque_stone.html as it seemed a bit easier to guess the correct dimensions.
So this is my interpretation of his work:
Printing took around 40h on an Prusa MK2S and went through uneventfully.
Some behind-the-scenes screenshots: I modeled the architectural part in Alibre. Somehow I decided to make this thing as single part, which in the end was not too clever as there is no easy way to copy features like columns or stairs:
This was rather straightforward, the only difficulty being to guess the correct dimensions.
By far the most effort went into making a halfway realistic and printable stone structure. I used ZBrush and watched hours of stone modeling tutorials, installed countless rock alphas and in the end came up with this rock:
It took a few experiments to find out what level of detail would still be printable. The capitals are also modeled in ZBrush, also the low printer resolution did not allow for a more intricate design:
In the end, I exported the architectural model from Alibre and did a boolean intersection with the stone, creating the final printing model:
The monk sitting on the stairs in the ZBrush demo soldier with a cloak instead of his army vest.
- Martin
