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kerryai
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February 13, 2020
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3D printing model

  • February 13, 2020
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Hi,

 

  I'm new to Adobe illustrator for my research project. I would like to demo the 3D printing process as figure shows. I use 3D > extrude to generate the extruded lines and at corner I used 3D > revolve to generate 180 degree extruded lines. If it is possible to joint these extruded lines together without creating interface at joint spot? Currently, I'm using 80 transparency for the blue part and 70% for the green part. or should I start over to adapt other drawing method to generate the extruded lines? I really appreciate all the feed back.

 

JR 

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Correct answer Mylenium

Dimension has no real modelling features safe for a few parametric primitives. You will need a 3D modelling app to create the actual geometry lik the free Blender, which in fact has some 3D printing features already like checking minimum wall thickness and that sort of thing. Otherwise I'm not quite clear what you are actually looking for. Your image seems to indicate some dual phase process to improve surface smoothness after the printed layers have been deposited, which might be simple enough for a static model, but if you're looking to animate this in some form it may get tricky and require you to get into morphing or animating parametric extrudes directly in Blender or whatever 3D program you choose.

 

Mylenium

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Monika Gause
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Monika GauseCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 13, 2020

You cannot build with 3D objects in Illustrator.

You will need to use a 3D application to do what you want.

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kerryaiAuthor
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February 14, 2020

Hi Monika,

 

  Thank you for your feedback. I have the licsence for Adobe Dimension. Do you know any other 3D application to start with if it is better to meet my requirement? 

 

Thanks,

JR

Mylenium
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Legend
February 14, 2020

Dimension has no real modelling features safe for a few parametric primitives. You will need a 3D modelling app to create the actual geometry lik the free Blender, which in fact has some 3D printing features already like checking minimum wall thickness and that sort of thing. Otherwise I'm not quite clear what you are actually looking for. Your image seems to indicate some dual phase process to improve surface smoothness after the printed layers have been deposited, which might be simple enough for a static model, but if you're looking to animate this in some form it may get tricky and require you to get into morphing or animating parametric extrudes directly in Blender or whatever 3D program you choose.

 

Mylenium

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