You can also choose the type of finishing-rough, polished, or finely polished.
It looks like Shapeways has recently changed their landing page, so you can quickly upload a model and select a metal preference. It’s easily uploaded to Shapeways by using the Export command in the Tool palette. Once the operation was complete on my model, the ActivePoint count dropped down to 158,000, which is a smaller, more efficient file. The second step is to Decimate Current, and this is when you will see a change in the ActivePoints.
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Special note about those ActivePoints: I tend to work with models that are a million points or lower…some artists have high-end hardware and love to work in the 12-20 million point range, but since I primarily work on a MacBook, and I hate waiting for my computer to process things, I learned how to work in lower resolutions. Once you’re done, the ActivePoint count will not change. That step will take a little bit of time, depending on the size of your model and number of ActivePoints. This process has two steps…because you’re only exporting one Subtool, you only need to use Pre-process Current. I always make a mental note of the ActivePoints above the canvas. Then I went to the Plugins menu, and located Decimation Master. I used Merge Down and re-Dynamesh to an appropriate resolution, which for full-sized rings in the method I use is a resolution of around 56-80. Make sure that the model you want to export is all in one Subtool-in my model, I had both the bezels and the flower band which needed to be permanently merged. Here are a couple photos of the model in ZBrush:Īfter creating the ring and resizing it to the desired thickness and ring size, I used Decimation Master to lower the overall file size and simplify the mesh. Creating a bezel with a smaller hole gives me flexibility on my stone size. I’ll use setting burs and a hammer handset on my Foredom to bezel set the stones. I decided to add a bezel setting to mine with a hole that’s smaller than the stone. Mind you, there are other great services out there, but Shapeways has a large variety of materials available.
So I had no idea what the answer to this question was…so I created a new ring and got it ready for Shapeways. I’d only sent models out to Shapeways very early in my ZBrush exploration, and even then I’d only had waxes made. I wear a similar band to this one, and mine is 1.5mm in thickness and it has never bent out of shape.
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If its a static object that does not move, decimate the crap out of it, or use pro optimizer to get it down to the vert count you need, if the topology is reaaally bad, you can still re-topologize it, in fact, rather than decimating it to the point its as low as it can go, its often better to decimate it a bit in zbrush to get a low enough (but detailed enough) model to start your retopology work from.I had a really great question from a viewer on my YouTube channel yesterday on the flower eternity band tutorial-how much would it cost to have the ring printed and cast? There are several factors that can affect the overall cost, like the thickness of the band and the type of metal. Beyond that, triangles are not a problem at all, your meshes when brought into unity are going to be all triangles, and your "quads" are just 2 triangles, were just often used to working with "quads" because they are more optimized for animation, and for sculpting. Use pro optimizer instead, but, whichever one you use keep in mind that its not designed to create the final mesh for you, if the model needs to be animated it needs to be re-topologized, which, might sound like a real pain but having access to 3ds max, especially 2012 you have an excellent set of tools for doing just that.
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