Help with 3d printing

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My company now apparently requires programmers to moonlight as CAD designers since we're decorating our new office, and my boss has put me up to the task of designing a bunch of pokemon to be 3d printed - i have the pokemon and everything designed - but i sent the order to the 3d printing guy and he said it doesn't have a manifold whatever that means - so help a CAD noob here and pls tell me how im supposed to add a manifold or if you have time and are nice enough, could you add it for me? 

btw the file i uploaded for the 3d printer guy had 1 obj file and 1 mtl file

[minibois]

I wouldn't know what that is.. Maybe @FloRolf can help you.

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@deXxterlab97 @Clanscorpia @ShadowTechXTS @ARikozuM @Dawson Wehage

 

a little help guys???

[ARikozuM]

23 minutes ago, gtx1060=value said:

@deXxterlab97 @Clanscorpia @ShadowTechXTS @ARikozuM @Dawson Wehage

 

a little help guys???

Find out what he's talking about first since I'm thinking of an exhaust system firstly.

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1 minute ago, ARikozuM said:

Find out what he's talking about first since I'm thinking of an exhaust system firstly.

he said my designs didn't have a manifold so he couldn't analyze them

[FloRolf]

10 hours ago, Minibois said:

I wouldn't know what that is.. Maybe @FloRolf can help you.

He says that he can't manufacture the thing. 

Do you have some Screenshots of you model? Maybe it's obvious enough to fix it that way

 

https://transmagic.com/what-is-non-manifold-geometry/

[Hackentosher]

Manifold? Give the guy an STL and call it a day.

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As my previous post stated, my company moved and is redecorating our offices and i've been tasked with 3d printing some pokemon out for some strange reason

 

I found some designs from this site called root of evil and they seem fine, but i emailed the 3d printer guy and he said that some designs like the magikarp won't print properly because of the whiskers and because they don't have a base

 

same goes for all pokemon with whiskers, like rattata, ill include the zips here and hopefully one of you guys can help me out by either making the whiskers printable and adding a base to magikarp ( i want it lying down on a little base with only 1 whisker facing up so that it'll be easier to print, have no idea how to do it) 

 

any help would be apprecaited, im literally dead in the water now, 

model#2.zip

Model#1.zip

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@FloRolf @Hackentosher

[WoodenMarker]

Merged threads--please do not make duplicate posts. 

[Hackentosher]

Looks like the best way to do this is to print it upright with support and hope the whiskers don't break off. Or just print it bigger.

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1 minute ago, Hackentosher said:

Looks like the best way to do this is to print it upright with support and hope the whiskers don't break off. Or just print it bigger.

by support do you mean just a wad of plastic holding it up?

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1 minute ago, Hackentosher said:

Looks like the best way to do this is to print it upright with support and hope the whiskers don't break off. Or just print it bigger.

what about the rattata? will the tail print ok?

[Hackentosher]

1 minute ago, gtx1060=value said:

what about the rattata? will the tail print ok?

Support, bro.

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Just now, Hackentosher said:

Support, bro.

i know basically nothing about 3d printing, if you could somehow edit the designs so that it won't look as bad once it prints out with support, that would be appreciated

[Hackentosher]

1 minute ago, gtx1060=value said:

i know basically nothing about 3d printing, if you could somehow edit the designs so that it won't look as bad once it prints out with support, that would be appreciated

No. Support is added in the slicer.

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1 minute ago, Hackentosher said:

No. Support is added in the slicer.

english pls - also, will adding support increase the price by much, right now the quote im getting for the rattata using abs at 200 microns on a prusa i3 is 5.74 cents canadian dollars, will that go up by a lot if support is added? is that an average price?

[Hackentosher]

200 microns? Those layers are kinda thick, I'd get 100. As for how much it adds, probably not a lot.

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1 minute ago, Hackentosher said:

200 microns? Those layers are kinda thick, I'd get 100. As for how much it adds, probably not a lot.

im confused, will 200 microns make it look bad?

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@manikyath help!!!!

[Hackentosher]

1 minute ago, gtx1060=value said:

im confused, will 200 microns make it look bad?

Wow you really don't know anything about 3D printing. So when a printer does its thing, it lays plastic in layers. I like to print at 0.1mm (100 microns) because the layers are smaller and harder to see. If you print at .2, the layers are twice as thick and are more noticeable which can detract from the appearance of your model.

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Just now, Hackentosher said:

Wow you really don't know anything about 3D printing. So when a printer does its thing, it lays plastic in layers. I like to print at 0.1mm (100 microns) because the layers are smaller and harder to see. If you print at .2, the layers are twice as thick and are more noticeable which can detract from the appearance of your model.

my budget for both of those is around the 15 dollar mark, so i can't afford 100 microns, these pokemon are supposed to be hung from the roof

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6 minutes ago, Hackentosher said:

Wow you really don't know anything about 3D printing. So when a printer does its thing, it lays plastic in layers. I like to print at 0.1mm (100 microns) because the layers are smaller and harder to see. If you print at .2, the layers are twice as thick and are more noticeable which can detract from the appearance of your model.

but are the models ok? im just worried about the whiskers drooping or the tail just collapsing

[manikyath]

few details you need for a model to be 3D printable:

- it all needs to be one "connected" structure

- from experience, dont make those connections thinner than 2mm, and even that is a serious stretch in terms of structural rigidity.

- the model needs to be "watertight", so there must be a clear "inside" and "outside" to each face of the model.

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4 minutes ago, manikyath said:

few details you need for a model to be 3D printable:

- it all needs to be one "connected" structure

- from experience, dont make those connections thinner than 2mm, and even that is a serious stretch in terms of structural rigidity.

- the model needs to be "watertight", so there must be a clear "inside" and "outside" to each face of the model.

well are the zips i included ok? as in are they printable at 200 microns at a good quality?