We are delighted to announce that the Tactile Universe has been granted a prestigious Nucleus Award by the funding body STFC. This funding will allow us to roll out the project across the UK, making our 3D tactile galaxy images and other resources available to any child with a vision impairment in the country. More … Continue reading Tactile Universe receives significant funding from STFC
Month: June 2018
6. How to slice the models and print them
When slicing our models for printing we use Simplify3D, but most of the settings we talk about will be available in any slicing software. Orientation of the model on the print bed With STL files in hand it is now time to print you models. The first thing you have to do is make sure … Continue reading 6. How to slice the models and print them
5. How to make name plates on the command line
If you have a large number of name plates to make, it is convenient to make the on the command line rather than using the Blender UI. This process is very similar to process introduced in the making models on the command line blog post. EDIT (Feb 24, 2020): For Blender 2.80 or higher make … Continue reading 5. How to make name plates on the command line
4. How to make name plates
The next step of the model making process is creating printable name plates for each model. We have created another custom blender plugin to help with the process, name_plate.py available from our GitHub page. EDIT (Feb 24, 2020): For Blender 2.80 or higher make sure to use v4.0 or higher of the plugin. New features … Continue reading 4. How to make name plates
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