is this laser sintered or SLA or...?

Looks amazing, but not the best ashtray design I've seen :)

Haha thanks man. No, our printer is a powder based printer, that uses inkjet heads and binder.

Pro's: No scaffold, high fidelity, can print in colour.

Con's: Needs to be post processed with industrial strength glue, slightly rough finish (like sandstone)

ah a 3d systems printer?

the result looks good and not needing support / scaffold has got to be a good thing!

Z corp style... baller!

Interesting, Nick!

3D systems projet 660pro, beast of a machine, and using a tiny air hose is very satisfying.

The lack of scaffold is fantastic, i definitely do not miss hours with scalpel trying to dig scaffold out of unreachable corners of a print.

Beautiful. I love the directionality of it! Are you isosurfacing with Millipede?

Thanks David, yes my definition is corrupted with the weird poly-line wires of Millepede. Though i stopped using the 'geometry wrapper' tool last year, in favour of creating my field values from scratch. Can't remember why now though...

Directly applying the field values should run faster than things like Cocoon which rely on distance evaluation to geometric elements (depending on the grid size with Millipede, which doesn't make a sparse sampling grid) and ultimately gives more control as well.

Yes, i understand. And one of the unintentional benefits of all these spheres i use, is that you can simplify the field values very easily. You don't need the values in the centre or outside of sphere, so using distance to centre point, you can give all the useless values a 1. Cutting down the values you actually need to work out by 80%. Which is helpful when approaching 1 million points.

love it!

It's beautiful Nick!

Very nice Nick!.......... In a few years when I hope we can all afford to buy a 3d printer. I can see a growing collection of this stuff cluttering my home, and my wife will be asking what are you going to do with this one now?  :) 

Kim, I feel i'm already living in your future, surrounded by 3d printed clutter.

We have an area in our office that is called the 3dprint graveyard. All the good project prints are given to the client, leaving us with the failures, mistakes and unfinished.