i add just a link to a recent open source UK printer on kickstarter that use this model on their promo (but they didn't made any donation... :-/ ... )

Perhaps we should add them to the wall of shame...

http://www.3ders.org/articles/20131226- … arter.html

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-)

YSB, do you do all the modeling+rigging+posing from scratch in a 3d app, or are you using something like poser to position the model and composite it in a 3d modeling app? just curious, because you poses always look good, and i have trouble when i try to rig and pose stuff in blender. guess i just need to keep practicing! lol

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

and the speed is important too..

for example on my picture, the left one was printed with slic3r in 6 hours, and the right one with kisslicer in 2 hours..

if you look closely, you can see than the surface of the right one is less perfect than the other..

I seem to get a bit of dropping on some overhangs but that maybe because it is PLA, plus it was a bit warm in here tonight.

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