Good place to create then get a 3D model printed?

[DanceswithUnix]

Well, I now have an empty shell of a boat that's similar, no internals. I'm playing around with it to rescale as its 15mm long at the moment

EDIT: No I don't, it looks like a wreck on the bottom of the ocean floor, its full of holes and mishaped pieces. Weird. I need to spend some time on this

lol, that's a bit small. I don't usually go below a 1mm wall thicknell, though I think I have a 0.25mm nozzle somewhere which is somewhat finer than the 0.4mm that I usually print with.

Are you just getting the overall shape, or have you managed overlapping planks? I haven't tried, drawing something that looks like planks would be hard but pretty nifty if you can manage it

[Rob_B]

I found one in delftship, exported to an OBJ and it looks fine in shapeways, has overlapping planks (or at least the look of) it's actually pretty close to what I'm after excluding the internal structures.

a 15mm long print from shapeways is $7.50, I dread to think what a 30cm version will be!

[DanceswithUnix]

I found one in delftship, exported to an OBJ and it looks fine in shapeways, has overlapping planks (or at least the look of) it's actually pretty close to what I'm after excluding the internal structures.

a 15mm long print from shapeways is $7.50, I dread to think what a 30cm version will be!

I would hope not that much more.

My current project is 166g of black flexible TPU filament which I bought at £21 for a 1kg spool. So that's £3.50 in plastic per attempted print.

But for each print you need to load the correct filament type and colour, clean the print bed, perhaps prep it with glue-stick, get the file loaded into the printer before you can launch the print. Before launching someone else's model I would want to quickly check that the print wasn't garbage (easily done) or in one case someone asked for something which was supposed to be about 40mm long which actually would have come out about the size of a house brick because it was scanned and the scale went wrong somewhere.

So cost of getting something small printed, I would expect the time of the person running the printer would be the dominant cost.