Short video on orienting "flat" models with large planar surfaces.

hello everyone here's the list of people how I start every video these days the list of people that helped get me started in 3d printing that taught me what I need to know to get started when I knew nothing so I'm very thankful to all of them some great youtubers haven't shown myself in a video for a while so here's my ugly mug again just make you look at it for a second so you know who I am then let's dive into the video this is short and sweet we're talking about how do you orient miniatures that are very flat or just consist of planes basically I mean this is really simple stuff I just want to make sure no one messes this up so the first thing we're gonna do is I know everyone tilts their models these days or no one's gonna print this flat to the plate we know far better than that already so we're gonna tilt that at a nice angle to make sure that we don't have that we're not on the plate and also we want to much suction coming off so we don't want to support it flat because if we support it flat it will just create a ton of suction the model will probably fail so we're gonna go and tilt it but the one thing we don't want to do with a model like this and here you can see the hole I'm showing you here that if you don't tilt it the whole bottom basically it's gonna print at once which would mean you'd have to have supports covering everywhere it'd just be incredibly stupid and probably fail anyway so we're gonna tilt it up just enough and you can see once you tilt it even a little bit and they deconstruct the model there is no place on that door where there's a huge flat plane that's gonna cause a lot of suction so that's fine but if we just go and support it now which I'm sure a lot of people might do especially using auto supports which you guys know I hate the whole bottom layer there is printing at once which really doesn't make any sense it's not that's gonna create a huge suction or anything but you have to basically support every pixel there almost every pixel so you don't have some little failures so all you have to do to fix this it's just tilted on the other axis so we tilted it on one axis already right and now all we're gonna do is tilt it on another access so we create a what I call lowest point on the model and that as you know from my other videos is what you're gonna use to anchor your entire model so the key place is now that bottom right corner on the screen and you can see I deconstructs you can see it's absolutely gonna print first so we know we put our heavy supports right in that corner and bunch them up it's gonna help support the rest of the model as we go so obviously I'm not gonna show myself supporting the whole model that would be pretty pointless but I am just showing you know how I start since I do even these manually I get my heavies you're not gonna see this this is the underside of a table so I'm gonna you know support this whole bottom side with heavies because any damage here is really meaningless totally meaningless so and then after we get rid of some I can't help myself when I see some islands I have to click supports there even though this is just an illustration so you want to make sure that a model like this though there's the islands going all the way up this side because the low point of each board actually comes to this side so I'm just showing you here make sure if that's the case you support every single one of those edge pieces because that's you know gonna support the rest of them all you don't want obviously any failures especially on a silly little perm like this so that's all I'm gonna show you here really because you don't need to see the rest of the supports after this now the next model is actually simple as this all is the next model is actually a little complicated in that once you tilt it okay now we know we need to tilt you know the other orientation because again this whole thing's gonna print flat but because there's a big space and then another plane the rest of that second one gets the second level that whole line would print so here the first line would print and then you went up up up this whole line would print it once too so if you don't tilt it in the other orientation if you've done the X you need to do the wife you've done the Y need to do the X because otherwise you have to support that entire second level as well so once we just give it a little tilt here it creates two effective low points on the model one there and then as you go higher up one on the other side so you can see here I'll mouse over it and show you yes we're gonna we have the lowest point absolutely lowest point on the model so we support the hell out of but on the when you get to what I call in this model the quote-unquote second level there's another low points you have to make sure you support the hell that low point as well and that's really about it for this video I just wanted to show you that when you have flat you know planar subs planar models and you want to just make sure you make always tilt on two axes before you support so you don't wind up with a failure on a model that's so simple you should really never ever have any kind of failure on it at all but also on something like this which has wood texture also make sure you look at those edges for islands because they do crop up so that's it for this video I have of course a lot more advanced stuff in my other videos so please like please subscribe I hope you enjoyed thanks for listening thanks for watching

Channel: 3DPrintingPro

Views: 52,111

Keywords: miniature, miniatures, photon, epax, elegoo, resin, 3d printing, terrain, tabletop, wargames, scatter terrain, dungeons & dragons, d&d, 5e, Age of Sigmar, Warhammer

Id: 0AufBMmpx0U

Length: 5min 11sec (311 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 13 2019