Comments on: Brewster station – my first 3D model

By: Emily

Emily — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:48:14 +0000

In reply to Duann. I saw that! Thanks for the kind words!

By: Duann

Duann — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:47:31 +0000

Wow,

That is an incredible 3D model to make in Tinkercad, all the more amazing for your first 3D Printing project..

Congratulations.

We just posted it on the Shapeways blog too.

http://www.shapeways.com/blog/archives/1551-3D-Printed-Brewster-Station-Pushing-the-Limits-of-Browser-Based-3D-Modeling.html

Keep up the awesome..

By: Tinkercad

Tinkercad — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 01:44:35 +0000

Emily! We are still in awe of this model! The folks at Shapeways did a fab job printing it out, and we are totally looking forward to your next mega-creation ;-)

Oh, and Jeff…we don’t bite =) 3D design and printing is super new to so many folks, and we love to teach and learn all about it ourselves! Let us know if you have any questions. Always happy to help! Especially if you’re a friends of Emily’s!

By: Al Cyone

Al Cyone — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 01:20:43 +0000

In reply to Emily. Yeah, I'm still not crazy about calling this "printing" but that seems to be the currently accepted terminology. And thanks for the explanation about the roof tiles. Data overload didn't occur to me.

By: Emily

Emily — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 23:18:31 +0000

In reply to Jeff M.. When I say printed, I mean 3D printing. I don't personally own one (I believe the printer that was used to do this costs around 60k), so I had it printed with Shapeways. If you're interested in seeing how that works, they have a video on YouTube. And everybody on Tinkercad is nice, so don't feel bad asking any questions there!

By: Emily

Emily — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 23:06:53 +0000

In reply to Al Cyone.

Tinkercad is a startup that is still growing… the model that I made was probably the most complicated thing ever created in the tool at the time, and really pushed the limits of their web-based app. Just the bricks alone crashed the app a few times, and I had to wait a while and go back a few weeks after they had done some updates to accommodate more complicated models. At the time of completion, the app wasn’t able to process more roof tiles… though if I went back it might actually be able to do so now, since they’ve made several updates since.

By: Jeff M.

Jeff M. — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 22:29:34 +0000

I’m in awe! Even after reading the full post at Tinkercad I don’t understand what you did, or how you did it. I supposed if I kept reading at Tinkercad I’d find out, but it just seems overwhelming and like something else I could start spending far too much time being distracted by…

Of course I don’t dare ask questions over there, but over here, I’ll at least chance asking something really stupid: What the heck is that made out of? Is it really something you can print out on your printer? How did you put it together? Why do I now feel like an idiot?

By: Al Cyone

Al Cyone — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 17:07:55 +0000

Nice job! I’m curious as to why you chose to have only a few of the roof tiles re-created. I can understand that a painter might want to only paint a few to suggest the rest but if you’re making a realistic model I’m interested in your choice not to fully tile the roof. I’m trying to decide if I think it looks better with just the suggestion of tiles or if it looks like the roof is unfinished. Or, to put it another way, if the roof was fully tiled would it look too “busy”?

By: Thomas at DE

Thomas at DE — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 14:32:42 +0000

SPEECHLESS!!

Absolutly great.