Roy 2 Report post Posted February 22, 2017 Installed 3D COAT two days ago. Drew this up in solidworks. Saved to STL. Opened in Voxel Sculpting. Did some work. Now how can I save it for best possible 3D Print. Printing with a Formlabs Form 2 SLA printer. If I can get printable quality I'll be sold. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Roy 2 Report post Posted February 22, 2017 Lets try this. is this the best quality 3D Print i can expect from this software? I cant buy if i cant get information, 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Typhonart 1 Report post Posted February 22, 2017 (edited) Well, best quality depends mostly on the printer you are using and a material you are printing with. With 3dcoat you can go with detail like 0,001mm I believe (at least Zbrush allowed me to print thing in titan with such accuracy, and I believe 3d coat is capable of bringing even more detailed sculpts). Edited February 22, 2017 by Typhonart Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Roy 2 Report post Posted February 22, 2017 printer will print .025. problem is i cant save .025 in 3d coat. it locks up the software. it locks up the software at .05. i7 with windows 10. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
setz 4 Report post Posted February 23, 2017 I have exported very, very fine detail from 3DCoat sculpted files printed with the Form 1 printer. Even at the scale of your object (which appears to be about 5 inches tall) you should easily be able to export at a resolution far higher than the Form 1 will physically resolve. Try this: resample your voxel object up to about 8-10 million polygons. Convert from voxel to surface mode. Decimate by 75%-85% to reduce file size without affecting resolution much. Export as obj or stl without any reduction. Reduction during export can reduce resolution in an undesirable way. This should give you a very highly resolved object for printing. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Roy 2 Report post Posted February 23, 2017 setz. That is it. Thank you very much for the advice. Works great. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
setz 4 Report post Posted February 24, 2017 Good to hear. I really like both 3DCoat and the Form 1 they work well together. I want to get the Form 2 too! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Robert G 6 Report post Posted April 7, 2018 (edited) Good to have found this... I tried this on a model I'm working on following this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB7Ee7NNy_U But when I export it from the layers menu as an stl, it does not get recognized bij cinema 4d, while exporting without the decimate trick opens flawlessly in cinema. I does however open in Meshmixer. Any thoughts on this? Many thanks, Robert Edited April 7, 2018 by Robert G Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AbnRanger 1,369 Report post Posted April 7, 2018 3 hours ago, Robert G said: Good to have found this... I tried this on a model I'm working on following this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB7Ee7NNy_U But when I export it from the layers menu as an stl, it does not get recognized bij cinema 4d, while exporting without the decimate trick opens flawlessly in cinema. I does however open in Meshmixer. Any thoughts on this? Many thanks, Robert In the Sculpt Workspace, make sure the layer is selected, then go to the GEOMETRY Menu > DECIMATE. Now, from the FILE Menu > Export Selected (choose STL as the file format). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
