GOD FUCKING DAMN IT!!..
So shapeways has these damned design rules. And among other design rules about size and wall thickness they have rules on the size of drain holes you need in hollow objects. Well I couldn't find those on their fucking site for FD and FUD so I made what I thought was reasonable drain hole sizes. Only to find out, nope they are all fucking wrong. over a hundred god damned models fucking fucked up because fucking shapeways can't write a fucking proper material's information page. FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So there goes another week of fucking work.
You know what pisses me off most? Its not having to fix the fucking models. I do that in my spare time. Its not even that shapeways fucking site has important information hidden in the materials section that I couldn't find. Nope its that since the last revision I have to fucking upload each god damned model one at a fucking time! I used to be able to load 15 or 20 pages at once and upload to each of them. Now if you open 2 or more pages they end up cross populating so you get webpages switching windows. It means I spent 5 days uploading and editing those fucking models. FUCK!!!!
Yup, sucks. I got that email about the drain holes too. Wanted to let you know that the pic for the M6B1 legs shooting is the same as the M6B1 at ease legs. Guess its academic anyway until you redesign and reupload, but wanted you to know they share the same pic.
ReplyDeleteAnnoyed at shapeways because they obviously arnt clear to the modelers on their requirements and thats forcing me another shipping cost. Thats ok, cuz if they are as sharp as they look online ill be ording a lot more.
Oh, and just to be clear, I ordered the Star Marine arm sprue 1 and 2, the M7B1 Torso, the M6B1 legs shooting, and the Scythes Pack, and out of all of them, only the legs were rejected because of the drain hole issue. So I guess everything else was ok...
DeletePlease, please follow through on your hollowing out of the Scythes Packs or whatever it is you were planning to reduce the shapeways cost. They are too expensive as is...
I have yet to see these models anywhere already printed and or painted. Gonna showcase them when I get them all set.
thanks for the message. I can't really blame it all on shapeways. Its very true that their design rules aren't terribly clear but I just didn't find the drain hole size rules and assumed it was the same as making general holes in things. Thats my fault for assuming. Anyway I'm sorry you got mixed up in this.
DeleteYeah the legs are what they notified me about too. Trouble is that everything is hand checked by shapeways when they print, just because they only caught the legs this time doesn't mean the other parts will pass. I wouldn't be upset if it was a bit more consistant but I keep having to go back and fix stuff that printed fine during my test prints which is the whole point of the test print process.
I probably uploaded the wrong file for the M6b1 shooting and at east files that happens when I do 100 files at a time. At least I still have the masters, one of the M4 poses I lost the master when my hard drive went out so its just gone. Still 1 out of 100 isn't bad odds LOL
The packs are getting some major overhauling including hollowing out if possible. Shapeways wants a 2mm hole which makes it hard to hollow the legs but the packs are still do able. I'm stuck with a problem on the tech pack but once that's sorted the new packs will go up. I have new arms almost finished too just posing them now. they are a bit less... choppy and will include new arm varients and seperate hands (assuming the hands pass shapeways' wall thickness tests).