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3D Printing The Pteranodon

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Jonathan Williamson created this beautiful 3D printed model with Blender and Shapeways. He takes you through the steps of the modeling process.

Jonathan writes:

With the cost of 3D printing plummeting and it becoming more accessible every day I have been itching for more things to print. And so when I finished the recent tutorial for 3D Artist magazine on creating a Pteranodon in Blender, I thought it would make for a great printing piece. Not only does it make a cool figurine, but it’s also a good stress test for printing. There’s very thin areas, thick areas, and everything in-between. I’ve been a big fan of Shapeways for a while and so I decided to print through them. In doing so, I thought some of you might find it valuable, or at least interesting, to see some of the process.

Full disclosure: I work for Shapeways and I'm having way too much fun with these printers ;-)

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Bart Veldhuizen

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Head of Community at Sketchfab.

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