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Re: INVENTOR - Hermit Crab Shell

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Originally Posted by firebelly View Post
Wow! Now thats a clever idea. You should totally make a shell all bowser-style with spikes and everything. I don't know inventor, but I do know max. Will the 3d printer accept .max files?
If we can get the file in anyway into solidworks, we can go from there. The printer takes a .sldprt file and then converts it into some random file and then sends it to the printer.


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Originally Posted by Elgin Clock View Post
Personally I don't use Inventor, but 3D CAD is 3D CAD so.. I would start by meshing together random dome shapes until it looked good enough for a nice shell shape, and then performing a shell feature (no relation ) option when my shell-shaped "blob" was all done.

Got MatLab available on your campus? This is a cool thing I found.
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentr...bjectType=file

Also, from an engineering perspective, check out the cool way these people made a shell shape on this page:
http://management.cadalyst.com/cadma....jsp?id=380964

This sounds like a cool project. Good luck with it.

Btw, what kind of Rapid-Prototype machine do you have? Z-Corp?
Yeah I'll try the "blobs" approach. I was trying to coil and sweep, but its just not working right.

As for the kind of machine it is a "dimension" printer.... http://www.dimensionprinting.com/

Thanks for the help...keep the tips coming folks
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