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Re: RP1's Digital Creations
« Reply #50 on: July 15, 2014, 02:12:07 PM »
Wow... very nice for a  Birmoverse Axis of Time Trilogy style ship, perhaps the USS Leyte Gulf or a Sirinui

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Re: RP1's Digital Creations
« Reply #51 on: August 16, 2014, 07:08:02 AM »
...so, one of my researchers is learning German and we started making up big words and then this happened.



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Re: RP1's Digital Creations
« Reply #52 on: August 17, 2014, 03:04:17 AM »
 ;D
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Re: RP1's Digital Creations
« Reply #53 on: February 09, 2015, 05:11:11 AM »
So, a colleague produced a script to turn our CAD models into files for the laser cutter...

So we can go from the CAD file for HMS Deathstar (laser armed Type 45 replacement):



To a physical version - a simple representation, but more survivable than the 3D printed ones, so better for taking to conferences! :-)



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Re: RP1's Digital Creations
« Reply #54 on: February 10, 2015, 02:06:19 AM »
Interesting - have they plans to also 3D print them?
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Re: RP1's Digital Creations
« Reply #55 on: February 10, 2015, 09:33:15 PM »
Well, we've taken to 3D printing the submarine designs produced in the short course in plastic (with interiors in some cases), and also the winning MSc ship design group each year get their design printed in steel or cast in pewter (using a 3D printed master).

The issue is that the ship design software has something of a casual disregard for the usual limits on facet aspect ratios etc so it produces very poor geometries that require a lot of editing, so we are somewhat limited. It's faster for me to remodel it in Truespace (old, but produces rock-solid geometries it seems) but again that comes down to hours of work and this is about 15 minutes...

We also have a scheme to print the general arrangement onto the decks, so there is some method to the madness here. :-)

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