Huge Yosemite Model

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I already printed one of Shapespeare's huge yosemite models and was going to make another one. I found it a bit tricky to glue all the pieces together without having the same base height, so I went ahead and created the pieces from scratch. There are some more topography datasets now, so I expanded it a tiny bit. Just like Shapespeare's, they are 100mm x 100mm blocks, although some include the adjacent north or south piece that is tiny. 100mm represents 20km. The height is based on sea level, so you can actually lower each piece in the slicer to minimize print material and as long as you make them all the same it should be fine. The quadrants with a small amount of data that are not labeled are included as part of the piece that is adjacent to it on the north or south side. For example, D2 includes the little bit of data/topography that is above it. For the small pieces, such as A1, in the slicer I put that right next to B1 and print them already together. Finally printed them up. At first with 20% infill, then 10% infill. 2 bottom layers, and 4 top layers. Huge thanks to: * Shapespeare for his tutorial and his Yosemite model. * Fransisco for his DEMto3D QGIS plugin (https://github.com/jawensi/DEMto3D-QGIS-Plugin) Here are the coordinates in case you want to get neighboring pieces, or need them for whatever reason. These are the lower left corner, to get the upper right corner just add 2000 to each side. A1 806500 4185500 A2 806500 4183500 A3 806500 4181500 A4 806500 4179500 B1 804500 4185500 B2 804500 4183500 B3 804500 4181500 B4 804500 4179500 C1 802500 4185500 C2 802500 4183500 C3 802500 4181500 C4 802500 4179500 C5 802500 4177500 D2 800500 4183500 D3 800500 4181500 D4 800500 4179500 D5 800500 4177500 E2 798500 4183500 E3 798500 4181500 E4 798500 4179500 E5 798500 4177500 F3 796500 4181500 F4 796500 4179500 F5 796500 4177500 G3 794500 4181500 G4 794500 4179500 G5 794500 4177500 H4 792500 4179500 H5 792500 4177500 I4 790500 4179500 I5 790500 4177500 Here are the low points in meters for each block so you can easily reduce the height of a group of blocks to the minimum for the group (or the whole thing), while keeping the bottom aligned. In this first print I'm trying I'm moving them down 40mm in Cura. A1 1549 A2 1507 A3 1860 A4 1864 B1 1445 B2 1245 B3 1373 B4 1430 C1 1474 C2 1243 C3 1210 C4 1226 C5 1788 D2 1216 D3 1205 D4 1630 D5 2054 E2 1210 E3 1202 E4 1202 E5 1593 F3 1212 F4 1201 F5 1407 G3 1479 G4 1007 G5 1195 H4 1158 H5 1175 I4 1090 I5 1336 Dataset citations: * Yosemite, CA: El Portal, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite Canyon & Tuolumne Meadows. Distributed by OpenTopography. https://doi.org/10.5069/G9GQ6VP3 * Yosemite National Park, CA: Rockfall Studies. Distributed by OpenTopography. https://doi.org/10.5069/G9D798B8 * U.S. Forest Service Region 5 Remote Sensing Lab Information Management Staff. (2022). USFS Illilouette Basin Lidar, CA 2011. Collected by Watershed Sciences, Inc. Distributed by OpenTopography. https://doi.org/10.5069/G9XG9PCR