University of Virginia Rotunda

thingiverse

This is my first upload and a test print for a new printer. I edited a public tremble file associated with google sketch up and (after a very tedious effort) created a water tight stl. THIS IS BY NO MEANS a perfect stl file and will have defects especially in the courtyard. (see printed product photo) The file was scaled by 30% and exported to meshlab. Upon cleaning and decimating the file it was exported to meshmixer and made solid. With a solid stl file, it was sliced with cura utilizing red hatchbox pla at 60 degree bed temperature and 195 nozel temperature. A non-scaled model will take ~ 3 hours to print. Unfortunately I only had red PLA lying around which has no symbolism. This would look very good with a white marble based pla and it is not recommended to scale below 70% as the columns would dissipate. Again, this is not a great file to print. It was a hobby project and a test print ; but, no other UVA Rotunda has been upload to Thingiverse. I put more time than I intended into editing the sketchup model and figured I'd upload what I had. Enjoy?! *Update* I further cleaned and uploaded a simplified 3D model (UVA_Routunda_Simplified_2) which removed a large portion of the surrounding courtyard. This model was printed with a white TPU and turned out quite nice (see photo).