Summary

half a raspberry with vine leaves
tutorial on instructions page.

Instructions

meshmixer & youtube tutorials ;)
Here we go.
Download
sketchup make. http://www.sketchup.com/download
Autodesk meshmixer. http://www.meshmixer.com/download.html

download "3d animation -blackberry, raspberry, rubus" from User "Rubus" on googles 3d warehouse by searching "raspberry"
https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com
https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=3252bc65933665184e08fc4ea39c13e7

open in sketchup, &
download stl plugin from googles extention warehouse via "window" in the menu in your sketchup program.
then export as stl

repair this stl @ https://netfabb.azurewebsites.net/

download vine leaf right by miodragd (but my repaired edition) @thingiverse http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:714034

open the repaired "raspberry" model in meshmixer
then click "import"
it will ask wether to "append" , "replace" or "cancel".
Choose "append"
go to your repaired "vine leaf" stl, and click "open".
Meshmixer will ask wether or not to repair the new models larges faces. choose yes.

Now the models are in meshmixer, you need to know how too navigate. Use youtube tutorials for better explanation then mine;
Click and hold right mouse bttn = look around(move the camera)
Pressing "c" centers the screen to the point of your cursor at that moment.
Zoom with your mouse wheel scroller.

more knowledge is for later. lets go with this first.
if you don't see a small window called "object browser", go to menu, "Vieuw" and click "show object browser".
you can see that the object browser contains your two imported models.
ignore the magnet symbol behind your model name, click the "eye"symbol on and off, just too see what it does. its handy for later.

Now resize your Vine Leaf until propper size by
selecting it in your object browser
clicking on "edit" (left) wich makes a new menu appear.
in that new menu, choose "transform".
Now, for each axes, you get a straight arrow, wich moves the model along that axes.
and a bend colored piece, wich makes you tilt your model on that axes. just click, hold, and drag.
@the end of the axes indicator there is a square appendix, wich is used too stretch the model on that particular axes.

@the center of the arrows, there is a small white box. click, hold and drag up or down to scale your model.
test some, and ctrl-z ;)

These are the basic navigation you need to complete this instructable, for further tutorials, please refer too a search engine :D

So scale your leaf, drag it into position, rotate it till its cosy, and click accept.
Now select that leaf in object browser, and Mirror it by clicking "edit" and "mirror"
meshmixer will give you a plane to pull in order to define the mirroring point in relation to the original object.
if u pull it far enough, a new , mirrored object will appear next to it.
also drag this new,mirrored leaf in place.

now select all objects in your objects browser, and click "combine" in the new appearing, small window.
your objecs are now one object.

Allmost there...
Go to "edit" and choose "plane cut".
meshmixer will supply a plane wich you can move with the navigation arrows until they JUST touch the leaves you meshmixed onto them.
Make the cut when your satisfied.
do not select "no fill" when you click accept. both other options will do.

Go to "analysis" and select "flat fill" and "auto repair all"

And before exporting, we are going to "reduce" the number of faces by going via "select",
selecting any part in the model by clicking on the model
and going via "edit"in the newly appeared menu, too "reduce"
in this case, you want to select "triangle budget", research the rest ;)
keep the second drop-down-menu on "shape preserving"
and click the "tri count" slider back until one fourth (1/4) of the slider.
make sure "preserve boundries" is checked and
accept. your filesize just went from +/-80.000kb to +/-7.000kb,
wich is about the max filesize you can comfortably load on a windows pc running repetier with less then 4GB Ram memory.
now click "export" (left)

Now your raspberry is ready for 3D Printing. floep. #justlikethat

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