Her Maiden Voyage

With my printer assembled, calibrated and prepared should a disaster happen. It's time for her maiden print.

After some debate, I decided the first print would be a max scale Pink Panther Woman. Lots of curves,  some fine detail (nipples, belly button, collar bone) and uses support structures that originate on the platform (for the shoulders, back, butt) and the model itself (from the hips to the breasts).

Read more about settings and results after the jump!


I printed using the lowest resolution setting. The idea here is to use the Z axis to it's greatest extent. I places the model into the Up! software, used the "Fit" tool to fit it into the max Z direction and hit print.

Settings:
0.4mm - Hollow - Normal Quality (it turns out there's a fast quality setting which I missed)

Print Time:
1:30 minutes - 344 layers which comes to a total of 137.6mm

Output height (measured):
137.65mm - hot damn that's accurate!

My Score:
94/100 - there's some funkiness on the back - the plastic lines wobble a bit. Post processing (sanding, coating,  etc.) would remove this but more support would have fixed this (or a different resolution setting on my part). The wobble is so minute, it's difficult to see in the photos. All fine details are visible.

This image speaks a lot about resolution - low slope features show the most stratification (layers). This is the coarsest setting and the layers are well packed, thin and their appearance magnified by this photo.