Wells
Well-Known Member
You're our Champion Halliwax! Twist that arm for us. I keep coming back to this thread in that hopes someone makes this one.
Luke's Lightsaber Mando series finale.
- Thread starter Anakin Starkiller
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I have absolutely zero experience with 3D printing and modeling, but for proportions...This is a lot harder than I thoughtLooking forward to seeing a Starkiller run! I'm gonna work on the proportions more or maybe I should just leave it to the pros
A tried and true method for me is eye-balling. It's not precision accurate. However, I've seen lots of people (and done it myself) go through lots of calculations and end up with something that visually looks way off. I've done this on paper, thought my math was correct, but ended up with a part that was too big. Calculations are really important, but sometimes it's best to eye-ball it.
I use ratios.. compared to other parts that I know are accurate. If a bolt head is 1/4 the size of the lightsaber handle, and the handle is 20mm, the bolt head is probably around 5mm. Then I play around with 4, 5 or 6, to see if it looks better. Recently, trying to find the size of things on a Graflex based saber, I measured the details of the graflex with calipers, and compared those real numbers to the part I was trying to ID, seeing if it was bigger or smaller, and how much.
I've had very successful results, and have used it to eyeball when machining and working on items too. I mean, this isn't for work - I imagine machinists don't have this luxury
To be honest tom. Before I learned how to scale stuff in photoshop, well before I even had photoshop I use to blow the image up on my ipad and do exactly what you said. Found something in the photo I could get a measurement off of in real life. And once I got that then I had everything else
But now with photoshop it’s really quick and easy
jamatar
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Thanks for the tips everyone Through a mixture of measuring what I have here with calipers and just general eyeballing, I think it's getting pretty gosh darn close. I'm going to do one more test print then it's up on thingiverse!
Through a mixture of measuring what I have here with calipers and just general eyeballing, I think it's getting pretty gosh darn close. I'm going to do one more test print then it's up on thingiverse!Attachments
AnubisGuard
Master Member
If I had one bit of feedback, it's that I think the base of the emitter is too tall by about 15% or so. Otherwise it looks spot-on!
jamatar
New Member
Thank you! I agree, I'll take it in a tiny bit in the final version. Going to print this overnight!
I was hoping that he would be the one to do it...i absolutely love every Luke hilts he's made and he is great to deal with. This is a major tease!!
Completely agree, he’s the guy for the job
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you sneaky sneaky man!
I check every day in hopes that I haven’t missed the sign up thread! HahaIt will happen, just give us some time
Oh no no no, trust me, when this happens I’ll be jumping around like a little girl throwing it everywhere. If you are subscribed to my YouTube channel, and follow my Facebook, you won’t miss it
Oh yeah, been subscribed to your channel for a few years now. Taking a good long break from Facebook though. How’s the KR Reyflex coming along?Oh no no no, trust me, when this happens I’ll be jumping around like a little girl throwing it everywhere. If you are subscribed to my YouTube channel, and follow my Facebook, you won’t miss it
havent done a thing, got into little trouble with my main job, been working non-stop... wicked dead line.. big push to make iti should have the reyflex done in april, keep an eye out for the video
