Comments on: 3D Milling Using Blender

By: Roy Goodell

Roy Goodell — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 05:09:41 +0000

I've been cutting wax jewelry models for years.
STL files are all you need for 3d models….
There are lots of programs out there that can convert stl files into tool paths.
DeskProto is probably one of the best.

Matrix3D is one of the most popular jewelry modeling programs…
It's $6200 or so for one seat an runs on Rhino3D….

Blender could probably do everything that Matrix3d does - perhaps with tons of work
but a whole lot easier on the pocket book.

So far - I got to say Blender Rocks….

By: yordan

yordan — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 19:47:28 +0000

gracias…

By: Joeri

Joeri — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:39:29 +0000

I agree with bob. In this case blender is used as a .obj to .stl translator.
On the other hand; the suzanna awards statues at the Bconf are blender modeled stereo lithographed objects.

By: johan tri handoyo

johan tri handoyo — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:34:28 +0000

amazing !!

i'm from industrial design background. this must be something !!!

By: dschnell289

dschnell289 — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 03:23:24 +0000

I made a blender model of a special type of bike seat (banana style with steering controls attached to the seat), then output the STL file and made a 3D printed model with a Stratasys FDM plastic rapid prototyping machine. It worked great, and gave us a 1/2 scale model to work with and demonstrate our idea (school project).
This is very similar. Keep it up!

By: bob

bob — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 03:12:57 +0000

um… their output looks awful. Blender is already being used elsewhere to generate g-code directly. They're basically just using it as a file converter.

By: punkfrog

punkfrog — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 03:03:23 +0000

Always wanted to see one in action.