I found this [www.smopic.com] model on the web of a beautiful warrior princess and really wanted to print it. After a few hours of modifying, combining and smoothing I was ready.
I first printed her nude standing up with support to see if I could print her and especially her hair. It worked out but required the model to be the largest I could print which was 215mm tall. I then added her dress and bows etc. I did not add the long pony tail, its bow or the sword as they seemed to delicate to risk printing in one piece.
The final file I printed has 6.4 million faces and is 306mb. It takes a very very long time to slice even with KS running on four cores at 3ghz. With the dress KS would not create the support the way I wanted it (supporting the bottom of the dress that floated in free air without encapsulating the entire model in support). After finding the minimal angle KS would create support for the bottom of the dress I tried printing it but it was a failure since the dress was only being supported by the very tips and they ended up breaking off about 4-5hours into the print.
The solution to printing her in her dress was to print her upside down. This resulted in a good print but the quality of the upper body was far better when printed correctly.
There is a third print off to the right that you will need to right click and view image if you want to see.
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I first printed her nude standing up with support to see if I could print her and especially her hair. It worked out but required the model to be the largest I could print which was 215mm tall. I then added her dress and bows etc. I did not add the long pony tail, its bow or the sword as they seemed to delicate to risk printing in one piece.
The final file I printed has 6.4 million faces and is 306mb. It takes a very very long time to slice even with KS running on four cores at 3ghz. With the dress KS would not create the support the way I wanted it (supporting the bottom of the dress that floated in free air without encapsulating the entire model in support). After finding the minimal angle KS would create support for the bottom of the dress I tried printing it but it was a failure since the dress was only being supported by the very tips and they ended up breaking off about 4-5hours into the print.
The solution to printing her in her dress was to print her upside down. This resulted in a good print but the quality of the upper body was far better when printed correctly.
There is a third print off to the right that you will need to right click and view image if you want to see.
