SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — Spin tabling?

Re: Spin tabling?

null@example.com (Rocketman) — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 23:07:19 +0000

I'd like to top that version. Maybe even add snake scales.

Re: Spin tabling?

null@example.com (carl_m1968) — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 17:39:58 +0000

Rocketman wrote:

fred_dot_u wrote:
In 3d modeling, the concept you are possibly suggesting may be called revolving. It begins with a 2d drawing, specifying an axis of rotation and "spinning" the line drawing around that axis, generating a 3d object. Fairly handy for creating many shapes that would otherwise be impossible to build. SketchUp and Autocad both use the term Revolve, while other software may have another word for it.

SketchUp lets me revolve stuff? I'll check that out. Hopefully doesn't require paid version. I'd like to create a snake to produce the never ending story medallion.

Or you could just grab this one from thingiverse and save yourself the work..

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:17951

Re: Spin tabling?

null@example.com (IanJohnson) — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 17:16:01 +0000

For a snake you might want sweep, where you create a path in 3D and extrude a 2d shape along that path.

Re: Spin tabling?

null@example.com (Rocketman) — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 04:25:00 +0000

fred_dot_u wrote:

In 3d modeling, the concept you are possibly suggesting may be called revolving. It begins with a 2d drawing, specifying an axis of rotation and "spinning" the line drawing around that axis, generating a 3d object. Fairly handy for creating many shapes that would otherwise be impossible to build. SketchUp and Autocad both use the term Revolve, while other software may have another word for it.

SketchUp lets me revolve stuff? I'll check that out. Hopefully doesn't require paid version. I'd like to create a snake to produce the never ending story medallion.

Re: Spin tabling?

null@example.com (fred_dot_u) — Sun, 12 Jul 2015 22:20:40 +0000

In 3d modeling, the concept you are possibly suggesting may be called revolving. It begins with a 2d drawing, specifying an axis of rotation and "spinning" the line drawing around that axis, generating a 3d object. Fairly handy for creating many shapes that would otherwise be impossible to build. SketchUp and Autocad both use the term Revolve, while other software may have another word for it.

Re: Spin tabling?

null@example.com (Tin Falcon) — Sun, 12 Jul 2015 21:52:03 +0000

People have been spinning a flat piece of metal on a lathe for years to create 3d objects such as bowls lamp parts etc.

Just google metal spinning. can be done a metal or wood lathe or a spinning lathe.
Tin

Spin tabling?

null@example.com (Rocketman) — Sun, 12 Jul 2015 21:22:50 +0000

Is there a word for the process of either spinning an object on an axis and producing symmetry? Kind of like a radial extrusion in a circle? Possibly even from a 2D shape?