Join Ryan Kittleson for an in-depth discussion in this video Solution: Prepare a wireframe model for printing, part of Maya: 3D Printing with Shapeways.
Okay, here's my solution, for taking the hand…and turning it into a nice wireframe model.…First, let's get it scaled up to the appropriate size.…I want this to be life size, so about 30 centimeters tall should work good.…Let's go into our font or side view, and I'm going to create a Measure…Tool > Distance Tool, and let's just find out exactly how tall 30 centimeters is.…I'm just going to resize…this one a little bit until we get to 30. All right.…Pretty close. Okay.…
Now let's scale up our hand.…All right. Looks good.…I'm going to go ahead and delete these.…All right. So back in our perspective view.…Next thing we want to do is reduce the number of polygons in the model.…I think this would be a little to many wires in a wire frame.…I'm going to go to mesh, reduce, and then…let's find out reduce here in the attribute editor.…One thing I like to do is take keep quads away and just bring that…all the way down we tend to get cleaner results that…way And now I just want to find a result that…looks pleasing, thats not to reduced like this where it kind…
Author
Ryan Kittleson
Released
9/5/2013- What is Shapeways?
- Setting up Maya for 3D printing
- Checking model scale
- Understanding why thickness matters
- Adding precise thickness
- Strengthening thin structures
- Fixing common mesh problems
- Exporting models with texture maps
- Making a wireframe model
- Publishing to Shapeways
Skill Level Intermediate
Duration
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Introduction
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Welcome55s
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Using challenges42s
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1. Understanding the Basics of 3D Printing
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2. Setting Up a Maya Scene for 3D Printing
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Setting up the scene units3m 26s
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Setting up the grid3m 5s
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3. Getting Models to Work with Shapeways
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Acquiring existing models2m 57s
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Checking model scale3m 27s
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4. Dealing with Model Thickness
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Preparing to add thickness3m 17s
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Extruding thickness3m 51s
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Cleaning up problem areas3m 20s
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Smoothing out the bad spots4m 16s
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5. Publishing to Shapeways
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Exporting the model3m 3s
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6. Working with Textured Models
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Examining a textured model3m 44s
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7. Making a Wireframe Model
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Reducing the polygon count1m 43s
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Creating wireframe lines2m 46s
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Finishing the wireframe3m 40s
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Conclusion
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Next steps1m 15s
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