Never call her 'babe' !

Translucent PLA @ .25.

Not at all..   my wife is my first judge when i launch a new model

@ldymox : nice print .. any problem with the 0.25mm layer?  I think i optimized her for 0.2

You seem to get such nice overhangs. I usually get some droop

It depends on how you want to control it. You could run it off your 12 volt connection with a switch wired n line to manually switch on and off. I have a separate fan controller for a pc hooked to a separate power supply that I use. It has its own thermistors and I can program it to start and stop based on temperature. This method did not require any soldering and did not interfere with the existing system. It only required a cheap ($10) additional power supply. Nice print btw.

Most of the threads are for a Goode controlled fan. Those are nice but eve a basic setup for someone that does not want to solder will help. It depends on your level of expertise. I haven't had the heart to solder on mine yet. I am trying to keep it as original as possible and add the features I need so that they are easy to remove if they fail.

Do you ever do smaller figurines of the size used for roleplaying game grids?  I hope to someday print up some of those, but I doubt I have the talent necessary to make them look like people, and clearly, you do (though I realize there are challenges in doing it smaller).

Since his on holidays and perhaps intermittent - yes, he has previously said prefers Poser Pro and also uses Hexagon, but doesn't use DaZ models due to licence restrictions on the distribution of the resultant STL.

I'm sure ysb will respond when he pops back in

Hi all...

I don't like to re invent the whell..  my goal is not to design a 3d model. my goal is to design a Working 3d printing model... it's not exactly the same... i can take some liberty with the model [ uv map, shader, polygon optimisation for rigging.... in the trash]

So, for that,  and for all my creation with character, i use poser pro to make the base pose. In the opposite of a lot of digital painter, i'm not ashamed of it. for this goal, poser pro is the best software. When i'm ok with the 'scene', i save it as a .obj model and then, i do all the heavy modifications in a 3d modeler software [zbrush,hexagon, blender, meshmixer... ].. then i use software like netfabb or meshlabs to make it '3d printable' [ retopology, thickness of part, normal direction and so on..]

A lot of people has discovered that it's not an easy task to tranform a poser/daz3d model into a 3d printable.
My toolchain and method is now well tuned and i will keep my little 'secrets' for Me... sorry   ...perhaps later, i will write a full tutorial ..

Dont't forget that you can ask me for any specific model for a donation of 25$ or more

I will be back in 2 weeks.. now i return to my chair to cook under the sun B-)