Hello friends,
my local fifth graders are doing a series of astronomy lessons which uses this mythical artifact as a focus. The class teacher thought it would be neat to try and 3D print the artifact and let the kids actually handle it vs the print version they are working with now.
The teacher got about this far before hitting issues that prevented printing. I have done a bit of 3-D printing on my ender so I gave it a try but I wasn't able to get even as far as the teacher did by the look of it.
Is anyone aware of any foss tools that might facilitate this or have time to help get us to a printable .stl from these 2d views? It's not supposed to be very thick just a sort of broken disc thingy. TIA!
If you are starting with nothing then maybe a lithophane conversion on the photo
https://3dp.rocks/lithophane/ https://itslitho.com/ https://github.com/muldjord/lithomaker
Just some options. 3dp.rocks works well from my experience. That would at least give you a starting point. I’d see if there is some way you can scale it on the z axis of the features are point straight up to get more depth on what the lithophane provides.
thank you I will check this out I knew this community would know!
Another option might be Bambu Labs lithophane tool on their site. I haven't used it but I have used the Keychain maker to make dozens of STLs from 2D images/logos and it works great.
I feel betrayed as a geologist by this bait and switch.