Summary

This is a page for fixing some digimon models for printability as requested by shadowforcelaws. Fourth up, Miragegaogamon!

The feathers and fluff were quite a bother! Each one was a dimensionless shell that intersected multiple other dimensionless shells. So each had to be thickened, made manifold, and methodically boolean unioned together, then made manifold again, one by one. That's 50+ parts per wing!

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>You will probably have trouble printing if you go smaller than 46mm tall. </p><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. 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></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 Raguelmon