This is a Christmas Tree ornament model I sculpted for printing.
That’s an amusing looking model. Have you considered the best orientation for printing? Is this a single part print requiring much support material, or a multi-part print with less support material required?
What application?
I can see that the title bar in the first photo shows Blender.
Yup, Blender. It’s the first one I’ve done. I actually had it commercially printed this time. My favorite part is making the models.
If commercially printed, it was probably via SLS also known as laser sintering. The powder serves as its own support material making for best quality models.
I’ve run into more than a few well designed models that really can’t be printed by the home user, due to difficulties with supports. Sometimes such models can be printed, but use a tremendous amount of wash-away supports or the break-away supports that might be used cause “ugliness” in the model.
@Fred_U It’s hard to make models that aren’t too complex for printing. I gotta figure out how to do it for home printers, as I might be getting into it more.
I agree about the difficulty. I’ve purchased models from 3DKitBash. They design their models for zero-support printing and I’ll bet it takes hours and hours to get that part to work.