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multihawk — Preparing COLORED Sketchup models for Shapeways
Published: 2014-08-01 20:10:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 1332; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 0
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A mini tutorial on preparing Sketchup models for Shapeways with COLOR and how to fix potential problems. This is specifically for the material Full Color Sandstone on Shapeways.I couldn't have made this tutorial without help from a Shapeways user by the name of "denali3ddesign". He also has a book that expands on the concepts taught by my tutorials, which can be purchased here:
www.amazon.com/3D-Printing-Ske…
If you want to learn almost everything there is to 3d print Sketchup models, the book above is the perfect resource.
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Tutorials on preparing Sketchup models for Shapeways:
Part 1: multihawk.deviantart.com/art/T…
Part 2: multihawk.deviantart.com/art/P…
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More tips and tricks on applying materials and such for Sketchup. Powerful stuff here!
www.mastersketchup.com/sketchu…
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Link to my Shapeways store:
www.shapeways.com/shops/mechvo…
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Comments: 2
It's always interesting in tutorials like these to see what other SK users' techniques are. For instance, I would have triple-clicked the object and zoomed my camera inside to color the back-faces without reversing them, and I had never heard of ctrl-painting to insta-color an object before. There's actually a lot of potentially useful secondary information in your process here that people might benefit from full explanations of, like group/component color versus face color, and how you can use default group color to make coloring quicker and simpler. Also, SK users might not know that there are perfectly good reasons why one might have colored the inside of a model bright red - which I do all the time as of late to track down rogue faces - or even 100% transparent.
Anyway, your 3D printing tutorials have been timed perfectly with a big project I've been taking from Sketchup to rapid-prototyping in .STL format, and it's been fascinating to read up on your process. Cheers
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I didn't go in-depth on things like component color versus face color since I wanted to keep this particular short and sweet, unlike my other ones which spanned at least 40 steps. Though now that I think about it, I should have, and I've attached a link in my description to the very place where I got my understanding of component/face colors. The author from the link would probably explain it better than I would.
I actually did not know that painting inside faces can help track down rogue faces; I only did that in the tutorial to demonstrate an idea.
I'm glad my tutorials has helped you a lot! That was the goal of them, and from that I think they are a success. I see many great tutorials and such all around, and I thought I would "give back" and help out the community with my ounce of knowledge.
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