Okay I'm an old guy with a 3D printer trying to figure out how to print a multi-story building. The design has a lot of transparency and a column structure so a massing model won't do. Obviously I can print floor by floor. Is there any way else to do this? Rafts, bracing? Thanks
ive printed a 6 story 600m2 model at 1:100 with PLA floor by floor. Looks great because its a good scale. no issue with doing it floor by floor. It takes a minute to stack up and align and glue together, but thats pretty easy as model making goes historically speaking.
printed a 5 story 18000m2 project at 1:500 using a sinter printer. stunning outcome but it was pretty delicate at that scale. It was printed all at once. Since then I am inclined to set PLA printers aside entirely because the sinter print has very fine resolution and can deal with columns in space, etc without any problem.
ymmv
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Okay I'm an old guy with a 3D printer trying to figure out how to print a multi-story building.
The design has a lot of transparency and a column structure so a massing model won't do.
Obviously I can print floor by floor.
Is there any way else to do this?
Rafts, bracing? Thanks
what scale? what kind of printer?
ive printed a 6 story 600m2 model at 1:100 with PLA floor by floor. Looks great because its a good scale. no issue with doing it floor by floor. It takes a minute to stack up and align and glue together, but thats pretty easy as model making goes historically speaking.
printed a 5 story 18000m2 project at 1:500 using a sinter printer. stunning outcome but it was pretty delicate at that scale. It was printed all at once. Since then I am inclined to set PLA printers aside entirely because the sinter print has very fine resolution and can deal with columns in space, etc without any problem.
ymmv
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