3D bear

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I was asked a few days ago if I could take a bear silhouette and make a 3D print. This was a new and interesting challenge to me so I wanted to relate my steps.

I got the silhouette image file

Went to a cookie cutter making site which took the silhouette and gave me a 1mm thick outline stl file

I took the 1mm thick outline file into tinkercad and removed the cookie cutter handle

I then made it a “hole” and unioned it with a block that it completely cut through

This made a solid bear with a bear dough left over as it were

I took this new file into meshlab and deleted the unused dough and then exported the remaining solid bear.

This I then put into my 3D printing software and adjusted it and then printed it

:grin:

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pics?

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Ditto! :slight_smile:

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Pics or it didn’t happen as they say.

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Can do but it will have to wait until later :grin:

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Well, poot. :persevere:

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Screen shot or it didn’t happen

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Boooourns. I demand pics or highly detailed pastel drawings!

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Oils and acrylics are not admissable !!

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Of course not ! Pastels bring that warm feeling with a hint of whimsy.

Omg I can’t remember the last time I had occasion to use the word "whimsy ".

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Coolness! Is that your first 3D print? :relaxed:

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Nope, done lots of prints :slightly_smiling_face: What I am most proud of is my making the rapter hands for kids with ABS with e-nable

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Awesome gig…there are a couple folks here who do those. :relaxed:

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You have some funny shaped bears where you live!

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I already gave the bear away so I thought I would start with a new silhouette :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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I am anxious to try this out! I am new to 3D Printing and I purchased this to play around with. May have made it simpler for you. http://www.doodle3d.com

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I love the steps that you did, but was it more of a “how would that work in this program” or was it “that was the only way to get what you wanted”?

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I like Pi.

Especially apple.

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It was the way I figured it out on the fly with google guiding me :grin: I had never done this exact thing and wanted to use web services as much as poss. :slightly_smiling_face: