Hi and thanks, I believe these are good hints for them! Maybe someone could be a little helpful to my Australian guests, they are here for 5 Weeks or so, working on a project on the "Angewandte" and will return to "down under" end of July. They have found a quite costly possibility for 3D-printing somewhere in Bratislava but you know how it is with students. The would even offer a contribution for using our infrastructure. About " and yes, i can help you, if you help me :)" Maybe you didn't realize that I have spent many days working on the infrastructure of the whateverlab, carrying away cubic-meters of debris and trash with my private car, helped a lot on the last big cleaning action and finally did a lot on the network cabling in the whatever-lab. And I'm not using the whateverlab at all... thx for the feedback rgds, MiKa Joanna Pianka wrote:
autocad, rhino and 3dsmax can export .stl-files! i can have a look over the troubles caused by converting. important questions are general settings, scaling, linetypes, possible plot sizes, possible objects (f.ex.: object in objet?), thickness of material,...
each architecture student knows about problems with not closed polylines, etc. the reappear in every conversion case (and we have to deal _a lot_ with them)
the best way is to make a photoshop (or gimp or whatever) tutorial "for dummies". even if architecture students know how to use software on a macbook it doesn't mean, they know, how to use other things on a computer (q.e.d.).
if this works, reality is just a few clicks away....
and yes, i can help you, if you help me :)
best,
j