Rocket Art Nouveau
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To be honest, I wish more people would spend some time on creating the beauty in an object itself not only constructing a well-working rectangular thing with some fillets, as I would dare to say many engineering projects end up as. In short, I would like to see art and computer aided design merge. Then again, to combine blender and freecad is not always a simple matter. Blender is the tool I love, however, meshes easily get out of "perfect" shape when working with them. Freecad is a precise and wonderful tool for designing parts working together, then again slow. To import blender parts into freecad means you must take care of overlapping meshes, loose items, doubles, holes, etc etc. To generate organic forms directly in freecad is - well - impossible in practice. I created this rocket as a test. There are parts I left out here, eg the fact that freecad can split the object automatically, however, scripts are needed to take full care of the results. Instead, I share the actual result with you, a rocket that can be printed very small, or very large still with a small filament usage (see the table in print section). This rocket can be printed in 1 to 4 materials/colors. Using a 0.15mm nozzle, I have printed the rocket in 2 colors, with a total height 20mm. At the other extreme, using a 0.4mm nozzle, I printed a 3-color rocket with a total height of 1100mm (spending 150 hours for printing and 2011g of filament, see the table at the print section). THe print setting for large scales target to use as little filament as possible. However, this also means, it will not be the perfect print - the size is so large so in many cases this might not matter. However, 1 layer thin *is* thin...
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