sketchup to shapeways

[earthwormjim]

Might keep them,as a memento!

[Rhys]

haha! doh! Didn't you think they were a bit expensive for small wheels? But like Josh said, you can cancel and they'll give you a credit for future use.

[earthwormjim]

I did think they were a little expensive.

[peterwaller]

Not wishing to get left to far behind here is my first attempt at a 3D robot part drawing using DesignCad.
As with sketchup I need to find a program to convert to .stl format and this took 4 hours before I got it looking correct I must read the manual next time.

[Andrew_Hibberd]

Pete W and 3D design = something awesome. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

[earthwormjim]

Nice Peter.
I am always struggling to find wheels,and this seems like a good way to get exactly what you want.
And they are pretty cheap too,(when you get the dimensions right! )
I did get a refund in the end,and ordered 8 of the right sized wheels for the same price!!

[Team Orr]

well, we're screwed XD

[peterwaller]

I have down loaded Accutrans which can convert from .dxf which DesignCad can export in to .stl but it kicks out an error because at least one of the cordinates is negative.
Is this a problem to shapeways as how ever many times I try to reset the 0 cordinate position I always end up with one axis with negative values.

[josh]

meshlab has always been the best program I've used to find non manifold edges/vertices and convert to .stl it can work with most file types apart from STEP which is annoying... shapeways doesn't like if you have an inside face that is facing outwards, I'm not sure how your program works Peter but is it possible to reverse faces?

[Jonny]

cheers jordan, i take my hat off to you 3d folk. designing electric eel 4 has been hard and very irritating and it's not even 1% done yet!