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			<description><![CDATA[<p>My grandfather worked at ALCOA for a long time so when I found out he was coming to our holiday get-together, I wanted to give him something he couldn&#039;t get at a store. I decided to print the ALCOA logo and the company text with a base in some aluminum PLA I&#039;d been thinking about purchasing. </p><p>The logo is pretty simple, so modeling it would be very easy. I&#039;ve played around with a few free .jpeg to .stl converters, and found them to work OK, but I wanted I smooth finished product.</p><p>I found <a href="http://www.selva3d.com/">http://www.selva3d.com/</a> from a google search and figured I try it out. Creating an account was free, although they do offer a paid version, and soon I was on their workspace. Uploaded the image of the ALCOA logo and it produced basically a lithophane, but I noticed you could change transformation type from photograph to logo/text. After I changed that setting the logo came through excellent, with perfectly smooth edges. I did the same thing with their company text and that came out great too.</p><p>I added an extended base to the company text for two reasons, so that the text didn&#039;t print as just a bunch of seperate letters, and because I know he&#039;s going to put it on his desk.</p><p>I printed them both in SainSmart Aluminum PLA and they turned out great! I&#039;ll uploaded pictures to the thingiverse page and my filament review in the filament section of the forum very soon.</p><p>Here are the files if anyone else wants to print them: <a href="http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2014637">http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2014637</a></p><p>This was something that was very easy to do, but something that provided a lot of happiness to someone.</p>]]></description>
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