Waichulis Form Box Hi Rez Remix Full Size
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This is a high resolution remix of the Anthony Waichulis forms for drawing and painting fundamentals. These are produced full size and in high resolution to eliminate facets along the curved portions of the forms. If you want to print smaller or larger, scale them in your slicer. I recommend printing one form at a time, rather than piling them all together in one giant print session. Ideally, use a matte filament such as Protopasta's white matte https://proto-pasta.com/collections/all/products/matte-fiber-htpla-white While this will give superb finish quality, it is quite pricey, and will stain if you pick up the forms with charcoal or graphite all over your fingers. A good alternative that is less expensive and easier to clean is Polymaker's PolyTerra Cotton White PLA https://us.polymaker.com/products/polyterra-pla?variant=39574352232505 (note that I have no affiliation with either of these companies, just a lot of experience with different filaments, and these are my top recommendations for this application). Sphere: Anthony suggests a field hockey ball (70mm diameter) for the sphere, since (as anyone with a 3D printer knows) a sphere is basically impossible to print as one whole piece. The original sphere housing has a 71mm diameter cavity, reproduced here. In my city, the best cheapest option is a lacrosse ball, which is 64mm in diameter. You can, however, easily print 2 hemispheres and glue them together. For this purpose, I have included a 70mm hemisphere. Just in case you'd like a larger sphere, I include a 75mm diameter sphere housing and a 74mm hemisphere to fit. In case your printer isn't finely tuned for accuracy, I include a 73mm hemisphere that should fit. The most difficult shape to print is the house form since it has fillets on the bottom. Fillets facing down, similar to trying to print a sphere, will not turn out so great, even with supports (required). In this part, I have deviated ever so slightly from the original by giving a little lip at the base of the house where it meets the fillet and pyramid cavity. This will make it much more printable, and should hardly be noticeable, if at all. If you want perfect fillets at the base of the house form, you could print the form on its side, making the fillets print well, but the inside downward-facing wall of the pyramid cavity will not print very smoothly, even with supports (required), but it should still be OK. If you want all regions of the house shape to turn out as smooth as possible, print it almost upside-down with one of the roof slopes on the bed of the printer. Of course, you will have one very smooth roof slope, and the other will match the typical 3D printing layered texture on the rest of the form. You can try out smaller versions of all 3 options to see which one you like by scaling in your slicer.
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