Finally working on Asajj!
Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2015 6:38 am
It's been so long, soooo long, since the germ of the idea grabbed me and wouldn't let go. So now with a few projects already finished I decided to finally work on Asajj.
Lightsabers! Building them in 3D and they are so close to being able to be printed!
I started with this:
Wrestled with vanilla SketchUp for a while:
Then installed two plugins to make curves actually work through multiple layers.
And I managed to find another plugin to export as an obj file to use the printer software I'll be using:
Nothing is leaping out as wrong so WINNING! First project to actually build from pixels. I had to resort to printing and using some technical drawing skills as the only nearly flat on view is still slightly off and is quite blurry. This is scaled to fit (with zero room to spare) a standard 25mm acrylic/carbonate(heheh) tube for a blade. I am just scouting for electronic components given I need a pair of everything.
But there are also the armour pieces:
All so far flat leather and plastic but for the wait piece I needed to mold something reasonably flexible, so to the russet and wetforming.
You can see the PVC pipe I also heatshaped before diciding to 3D print the lightsabers It's a really good diameter though! 32mm which I heated and flattened as well as curved.
And fabric pieces:
And even these are detailed:
Lightsabers! Building them in 3D and they are so close to being able to be printed!
I started with this:
Wrestled with vanilla SketchUp for a while:
Then installed two plugins to make curves actually work through multiple layers.
And I managed to find another plugin to export as an obj file to use the printer software I'll be using:
Nothing is leaping out as wrong so WINNING! First project to actually build from pixels. I had to resort to printing and using some technical drawing skills as the only nearly flat on view is still slightly off and is quite blurry. This is scaled to fit (with zero room to spare) a standard 25mm acrylic/carbonate(heheh) tube for a blade. I am just scouting for electronic components given I need a pair of everything.
But there are also the armour pieces:
All so far flat leather and plastic but for the wait piece I needed to mold something reasonably flexible, so to the russet and wetforming.
You can see the PVC pipe I also heatshaped before diciding to 3D print the lightsabers It's a really good diameter though! 32mm which I heated and flattened as well as curved.
And fabric pieces:
And even these are detailed: