Prusa Mendel assembly in Blender

Hi everyone!

This is my first topic here in the Forums. I've owned a RepRap for a couple of months now and I absolutely love it. So much I even started a company with a friend of mine in order to bring the world of 3d printing to my country (I live in Central America, Guatemala ).

What I want to create here is an assembly of the Prusa Mendel complete with vitamins and all, render it to make nice pictures and later on animate the process of actually building the printer.

Here's the git of what I've managed to build. It's far from complete, but it's something! I may have made a mistake in making everything into one single file. I'll try to separate parts of it that can be reused, for example: the triangles, heatbed, extruder+hotend, etc.

https://github.com/kurtEK/blenderPM

I'm calling all Blender users here who would like to take part in this project! Hopefully we can make some nice animations with this

btw, my company's fb page: www.facebook.com/mbau3d (a like would be much appreciated )

Welcome to the forum, kurt.

Uhm, why didn't you export the OpenSCAD models to STL, just to import them in Blender? Redrawing everything in another application, ... well, it'll be outdated next week.

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You can also do animations in OpenSCAD.
See the DogBot videos from [www.onshoulders.org].

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Traumflug Wrote:
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> Welcome to the forum, kurt.
>
> Uhm, why didn't you export the OpenSCAD models to
> STL, just to import them in Blender? Redrawing
> everything in another application, ... well, it'll
> be outdated next week.

Thanks for the welcome

I've been importing the STL's and just making the assembly. I'm not that good at Blender just yet to design everything myself. Hopefully soon, if I keep practicing! (Is i3 coming out this next week??? I've been offline too long )


rhmorrison Wrote:
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> You can also do animations in OpenSCAD.
> See the DogBot videos from [www.onshoulders.org].

I've seen those vids as well. But OpenSCAD is not really made to render or animate. In Blender one can make very nice still images and then animate something quite awesomly My idea is to make a video that shows how to assemble the machine and could also be used to teach about the machine