Thread of Madness - Joseph Drust

[Piggyson]

@slothkins, @MealeaYing: Here is a quick image breakdown of the process

The main thing for 3D Printing is to make sure any intersecting geometry is solid and intersecting correctly. Then after the modeling is completed I merge all the subtools together then convert them to a Dynamesh. Dynamesh will weld everything together, get rid of the internal geometry, and generate a watertight mesh. After the Dynameshing is done I just check to make sure that it is indeed solid then I decimate it down to around 250k. After that I just export and print.

Shapeways/Sculpteo both check with a lot of scrutiny to make sure that the print doesn’t fail (since failure is money and time lost for them.) I find that some of the restrictions often times will print fine on a consumer level printer.

-Joseph

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[keridan]

… valuable and generous post Joseph, a very complete set of many printing tips all in one infographic.
This post alone can help anybody, whether their 1st print or 500th.
You are amazing.

Cheers,
Keridan

[Piggyson]

@keridan: Thanks for the kind words! Glad to hear the information is of value

Here are the next five; same process as in the image tutorial. All robots are printed at 33.1mm/1.5in in the longest dimension. They take roughly 4-5 hours at the highest resolution on the Form2.

-Joseph

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[Piggyson]

Here are the next five Halfway though the month!

-Joseph

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[MealeaYing]

THAT was awesome.
Thank you!

[Piggyson]

@MealeaYing: =)

Next five! Getting close to the end of the month

-Joseph

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[Piggyson]

Next five Down to the last week of the Challenge.

-Joseph

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[slothkins]

For some reason I didn’t get an email update on this thread even though I thought I was subscribed? Anyways - great bunch. Do you have a collected group shot for the whole month? Would be great to see!

[Piggyson]

@MealeaYing: Yeah the planning aspect is something I attempt to do at the start; it doesn’t always go as planned thou If I am just going to do something for rendering I can end up modeling sloppier, use camera angles to cheat things, and not worry about watertight meshes. The Robots on this thread where I was using surface noise would never be able to be printed; and I would basically need to start over on them if they ever needed to be printed.

@slothkins: Working on reprinting the first 16 in the Grey Resin then I will be creating images of all of them together. I probably won’t start the image process till next week; gonna take a break and go to sleep earlier this week since March is finally over

Here are the final robots for the month!

-Joseph

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[Piggyson]

Here are some images of the final month of the robots I created for the Instagram Sketch Challenge in the Grey Resin. Each of the robots were created entirely in ZBrush then printed out on the Formlabs Form2 Machine. I will post some more images of the models after they have had a light coat of Grey Primer as well.

-Joseph

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[nebular]

That’s so awesome

[blackspider]

I’ve tried to download your plugin but the link to gumroad is broken.
it says page doesn’t exist. can I find it somewhere else?
Thanks in advance

[Sedghammer]

The plugin seems like it’s no longer available at that link. Is there a way we can download it elsewhere? Thanks.

[Piggyson]

@Sedghammer, @blackspider: With the release of ZBrush 4R8 all my plugins need to be updated to function correctly. I am currently going through and slowly updating them to work with 4R8 hoping to have them all completed soon

The 4R7 versions of the plugins can be found here: https://gumroad.com/l/ZUjcb

-Joseph

[Kru82]

Joseph

Love the Z CNC plugin , have a question though regarding masking in it . Masking by Alpha doesn’t seem to applicable to use or am I missing something ?

[Cryminysakes]

Hello - any movement on the Panel Loops Plug in update to 4r8? Thanks Joseph, you a beast

[AristotlesLantern]

Joseph, thankyou to you and the development team for the Intersection Master plugin.

This is absolutely perfect for adding regular radiused edges to boolean intersections of complex surfaces.

Fantastic work.

[TBAzB]

Are you update the panelloop presets plugin for ZB 2021.5 ?
Atm the latest version from pixologic site produce a error:

Best regards,
Thomas

[Piggyson]

@TBAzB: The latest version from the Pixologic Resource Center should work with 2021.5.

https://pixologic.com/zbrush/downloadcenter/zplugins/

If you are still having an issue can you submit a support ticket at support.pixologic.com?

Thanks =)

-Joseph

[TBAzB]

Thanks for quick reply, Joseph.
I must contact the support.

edit:
Another plugin is caused the error.
Which one, Idon´t know

Thanks for you work, Joseph

Best,
Thomas