Summary

This is a page for fixing some digimon models for printability as requested by shadowforcelaws. First up, Lucemon SM!

This wasn't too bad to fix except the teeth, which were a non-manifold nightmare that could give an extra-dimensional alien a headache. I ended up scooping the teeth out and giving Lucemon a brand new pair of chompers that are thicker and easier to print.

Print Settings

Printer Brand:

Creality

                                            <p class="detail-setting printer"><strong>Printer: </strong>                     <div><p>Ender 3 Pro</p></div></p>                                                                                <p class="detail-setting rafts"><strong>Rafts: </strong>                     <div><p>Yes</p></div></p>                                                                                <p class="detail-setting supports"><strong>Supports: </strong>                     <div><p>Yes</p></div></p>                                                                                <p class="detail-setting resolution"><strong>Resolution: </strong>                     <div><p>0.1mm</p></div></p>                                                    <strong>Filament:</strong> Makerbot PLA                    <br>                        <p class="detail-setting notes"><strong>Notes: </strong>                    </p><div><p>This model must be printed with supports and higher the resolution the better. I recommend tweezers or thin wire cutters for careful support removal, and/or dissolvable supports if you have a dual extruding printer. </p><p>All the parts will print in the Cura slicer, but if you have a flaky printer it might have trouble on the pointy bits with all the nozzle retractions that are inevitably necessary.</p><p>If you have trouble, one recommendation I can make in general is to chop the limbs off and printing the parts separately in a more optimal orientation, then gluing them together later.</p></div>

How I Designed This

Blender has a few plugins useful for checking printability and thickness. I then manually went in to the vertices and thickened certain parts, and lightly sculpted other parts like the teeth to ensure the important details would come out in the print at their desired scale. Once all the parts were in a good state according to the Cura slice preview, I boolean unioned the parts to fuse them together.

Tossing it into the free trial version of netfabb to quickly repair any missed non-manifold, and meshmixer to easily separate and delete floating shells.

Finally checked how Cura would slice it to ensure the final print would be ok.

printability fix for LucemonSM