New 3d Print: Oahu

After making my SF Bay print, I thought I’d turn to the Hawaiian islands: I lived on Oahu for a time and have many fond memories. I was always shocked by its beauty constrained by size: I’m pretty sure you could drive around it twice in one day if you tried.  Printed on my Makerbot Replicator (1) .  Download the files to print over on Thingiverse.

I’ve covered in detail the process I used to make these maps.  But below are tweaks I made this time:

  • I printed the ocean much thicker:  The bay print was 2 layers (.4mm) but this just seemed too delicate.  The oceans for this were 8 layers (1.6mm).
  • I had issues with the corners of the bay print lifting during print.  For Oahu, I set my build platform to 50 degs:  This printed them completely flat, with no warping.
  • The stl’s that Terrain2STL generated had some pretty big holes in them:  Mainly along the sheer cliffs that Oahu has.  I’m guessing this is data that couldn’t be captured successfully from space.  Unfortunately these were bigger holes than Meshlab could cleanup successfully.  Luckily, running them through Microsoft’s “Model Repair Service” (used to be Netfabb Cloud) fix each one up nicely.

Check out the article written on it at 3DPrint.com

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    • Dave Fisher
    • January 6th, 2015 9:58am

    Beautiful. I’m going to read how you do these, they look wonderful. Please let me know if you ever create one of the big island (Hawaii).

  2. @Dave Fisher
    If I ever do the big Island, it wouldn’t be to the same scale: That would be a *lot* more printing : Oahu was basically 4 prints, the big island would be around 16 😉
    But I’m all for someone else to give it a shot! :)

    • mikael
    • January 6th, 2015 2:04pm

    I cant help it, since I am a tec freak, to simply drule.
    hehe
    a lott.

    And I loved the 3d printer from the moment I could read about it.
    And this prints that it shown here is great.

    peac

    • Kenneth
    • January 17th, 2015 4:02am

    I was wondering if you make these 3d prints for sale.
    Specifically, I’m interested in the this Oahu print you’ve made.

  5. I do actually make prints for others (via my 3dHub), but usually it’s “just the print”: The Oahu piece here had quite a bit of extra work put into it: Trimming/shaping of the prints, the purchase\trimming of the acrylic, painting, glueing etc.
    Both options are available: If you just want ‘just the prints’ and you assemble them into the final piece yourself (less $), or if you want me to create the final piece for you (more $).
    Email me at warpcat@gmail.com if you’re interested and we can talk specifics.

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