It doesn't look like you need as much supports as you used. On an FDM printer, the layers build up, so anything like the fur you pointed out would print well. The body should print with no supports needed. The tail might have issues in the beginning, but looks good without supports. The ears would probably need supports, since they are practically parallel to the ground. It all depends on your printer, though. I have ran an overhang test on my Ender 3 and got decent results from 50 degree and less. It's fun to think about modeling with 3D printing in mind. Any slope that is 45 degrees is my friend. I have been really enjoying this series, since it's been easy to follow along. Thanks!!!
Grant, not sure if you know the name Verlinden by chance, but he gave me a personal tour of his facility before closing shop and retiring. World renown for his models. He'd be super excited to see something like this. Immediately thought of him as you show off your finished product there. Amazing.
Thank a lot for yours videos, i learn a lot... One more thing you could check is 'face orientation'. I used to figured out why some parts of my object were not sliced.
In the add-on section there is a 3d printing add-on. If you click it you'll have a "3d print" tab next to your properties window. In there you can check your angles, check for non uniformity, make your object manifold, and much more. It's quite helpful because with one click it will tell you what's wrong and with one more click will fix it. Also, I would recommend switching to PrusaSlicer even if you don't have a Prusa printer. IMO Cura is literally the worst slicer out there, and the quality of prints it produces is very low compared. It seems trivial but when it comes to generating the gcode, setting up your settings, your supports, etc... Prusa has a much better and easier interface. I can guarantee if you try Prusa once, even as a beginner, you'll notice the difference in print quality. Plus your print times will always be estimated spot on. Side Note: A lot of people will likely get mad at me for putting Cura down and freak out, so for any trolls... Truth is truth and I'm entitled to my opinion just as (you) are yours. So please try to remember that before you bash/troll me for not agreeing with your opinion. And also remember when I don't troll (you) back for not agreeing with (you). Then understand what makes us different. Not judging the community here, just pointing something out.
Why didn't you use the 3D printing addon which comes out of the box with blender? With this it is really eays to find nonmanifold areas + export to .stl!
About overhang areas (or ones located at the angle), you show the result of using supports on 4:33, but did you specifically model them? Or was that done with a slicer? Thank you very much for tutorials in general and this serie in particular btw, very nice material and explanation.
@@grabbitt that makes sense, thanks again. One small nuance also - the printed sculpt color is looking very nice. Is it made by you manually after printing or is that color of material? If that is covered in the next video I'll wait for it
Dont mind me asking an animation question here... How can i render an animation and its audio into 1 video? I have been trying it but the only solution i have is to render both and then switch over to my video editor. Can you help?
This series is to helps us with sculpting.. But grant doesnt even realise how much this video motivates us. Great job Grant 💪🏿💯🔥
I didn't even know about the Decimate modifier! It's amazing!! Thank you so much for this video! It was super helpful! :D
It doesn't look like you need as much supports as you used. On an FDM printer, the layers build up, so anything like the fur you pointed out would print well.
The body should print with no supports needed. The tail might have issues in the beginning, but looks good without supports. The ears would probably need supports, since they are practically parallel to the ground. It all depends on your printer, though. I have ran an overhang test on my Ender 3 and got decent results from 50 degree and less. It's fun to think about modeling with 3D printing in mind. Any slope that is 45 degrees is my friend.
I have been really enjoying this series, since it's been easy to follow along.
Thanks!!!
Grant, not sure if you know the name Verlinden by chance, but he gave me a personal tour of his facility before closing shop and retiring. World renown for his models. He'd be super excited to see something like this. Immediately thought of him as you show off your finished product there. Amazing.
I suspect the "1000" at the end, is because 3D printer's base unit is millimeters, while Blender's base unit is meters.
Most probably because I have my blender setup in milliliters since I only use it for 3d printing and i don't have to change the scale while exporting.
This is so cool... im.inspired to sculpt...ty
Thank you for this video and for sculpting ones ! As suggestion, could you make one about how to split a model and add joints for 3d printing ?
Thank a lot for yours videos, i learn a lot...
One more thing you could check is 'face orientation'.
I used to figured out why some parts of my object were not sliced.
This is great.
I'm still having some problems calibrating my printer, but hopefully I'll be able to fix it soon.
In the add-on section there is a 3d printing add-on. If you click it you'll have a "3d print" tab next to your properties window. In there you can check your angles, check for non uniformity, make your object manifold, and much more. It's quite helpful because with one click it will tell you what's wrong and with one more click will fix it.
Also, I would recommend switching to PrusaSlicer even if you don't have a Prusa printer. IMO Cura is literally the worst slicer out there, and the quality of prints it produces is very low compared. It seems trivial but when it comes to generating the gcode, setting up your settings, your supports, etc... Prusa has a much better and easier interface. I can guarantee if you try Prusa once, even as a beginner, you'll notice the difference in print quality. Plus your print times will always be estimated spot on.
Side Note: A lot of people will likely get mad at me for putting Cura down and freak out, so for any trolls... Truth is truth and I'm entitled to my opinion just as (you) are yours. So please try to remember that before you bash/troll me for not agreeing with your opinion. And also remember when I don't troll (you) back for not agreeing with (you). Then understand what makes us different. Not judging the community here, just pointing something out.
thanks for the info. I'll give that a try next time and see how it compares :)
Why didn't you use the 3D printing addon which comes out of the box with blender? With this it is really eays to find nonmanifold areas + export to .stl!
because i dont really need it in this case as all i did was export. I already know my shape is manifold from sculpting
@@grabbitt You never know ;)
Good question. I don't 3D-print and I use it all the time to find bad shading issues and boolean-weirdness.
About overhang areas (or ones located at the angle), you show the result of using supports on 4:33, but did you specifically model them? Or was that done with a slicer?
Thank you very much for tutorials in general and this serie in particular btw, very nice material and explanation.
That's in the slicer
@@grabbitt that makes sense, thanks again. One small nuance also - the printed sculpt color is looking very nice. Is it made by you manually after printing or is that color of material? If that is covered in the next video I'll wait for it
Good job
awesome tutorial, thankyou
Very nice! 👍👍
Big thank you for this video since i already know how to sculpt and i wanted to print my sh1t :D
Thank you for the tutorial Grant :)
That's favorable
Thanks a lot!!!
Woa 😍
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Very nice tutorial.
nicework
amazing 👌👌👌🔝🔝🔝
Dont mind me asking an animation question here... How can i render an animation and its audio into 1 video?
I have been trying it but the only solution i have is to render both and then switch over to my video editor. Can you help?
i'm not actually sure with blender sorry
Can you please upload the 3D model for us ?
its on my thangs profile thangs.com/u/221306
@@grabbitt Thank you very much ❤️
Hi I have formet my laptop and blender started lagging
difficult to say what the problem is. Maybe try the new alpha version of blender
hey guys i just uploaded my 3.5days long blender render, care to tell me your opinion ?
that video was a gem btw !
Question: can you 3d print a 3d printer?
Yes! Prusa is producing most parts of it's printers with 3D printers!
@@MrDigitalWorks that's interesting
First maybe
you are the winner :)