Cretan Labyrinth Hill

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A remake of the Cretan Labyrinth 3D model to stand flat on a surface. Also an opportunity to give myself some detail oriented practice in SketchUp. Print Settings Printer Brand: MakerBot Printer: MakerBot Replicator (5th Generation) Rafts: Yes Supports: No Resolution: High Infill: Default Post-Printing It's fairly rough, and a small ball bearing will not roll down the channel. In fact, I tried dropping water at the top with a syringe, and alas it wouldn't flow down the channel easily either. Perhaps if I scale the design to have a sharper slope... or had begun with the "tall" version of the original... How I Designed This I imported the original Cretan Labyrinth 3D STL file into SketchUp using the SketchUpSTL plugin. It lost the faces on a lot of the finer detail, in particular on the inside of two of the sharpest curves. Using Soften Edges, and manually painstaking clicking, I selected the vertical faces of the original model and removed them from the equation so I could delete the bottom (or incoming) track. I then brought the vertical faces back in, moved them down, and intersected those faces with a flat plane to make the existing vertical walls and bottom of the model. I then went through and repaired all the glitchy mistakes that SketchUpSTL made importing the file. Because SketchUp was creating two faces for each of the tiny faces I repaired and I didn't want to take the time to delete one of them every single time I created both, I decided to export the object in 3DS format (STL export lost all the same details the import did...) and run it through NetFabb Basic in order to run the "remove duplicate faces" script in the repair view. Then the object was solid and printable, and here you have it. I bet it would have been much easier if I had the original model's source files and the application used to make them, but shrug whatever, it was an educational experience.