of the pocket monsters so these will not be available as details on your 3D prints. The only drawback that you should be aware of before 3D printing is that the 3D models do rely on textures for things such as eyes, mouth, nose etc. The support structures will be used to make sure that the 3D printer will not try to print things in the air such as parts of the bod or the tail, after the successful print you will need to remove the support material by hand.ĭo note that the 3D models of the Pokemons linked are not the most detailed ones you can probably find, they use less polygons, so some additional tweaking such as smoothing might help you get even better results though even without that they still do look pretty nice when 3D printed even in small scale. Using medium to higher level of detail would also be good if you are looking for a smaller in size 3D print in order to get better details on the model. With most Pokemon 3D models you will have to use Support material in order to have the print successful, depending on the size of the print you will want to get you may need to reduce a bit the 3D printing speed as well in order to get good results.
Since the service does not support OBJ 3D models you will have to first export the OBF file you have opened with the 3D printer's software in STL format that you can upload and repair with this service. I'm talking about the free automated online service for repair of 3D models offered by Trinckle that works fast and provides very good results.
If you have been following my series of Blog posts about 3D printing on Steemit you should already know how to easily and automatically try fixing issues with 3D models that may not be suitable for direct 3D printing. You need to open and inspect the 3D model with the preview functionality of the 3D printer software to make sure that it is rendered properly, otherwise you may need to do some fixing first before you go to printing.Īutomatically Fixing Problematic 3D Models What we are going to be needing is the 3D model in OBJ format as that is the more commonly supported format from most 3D printing software and you should be able to directly open the OBJ 3D model.
In this example I'm using the Pokemon Evee that I will be 3D printing, there are a number of files that you will find in the archive for each Pokemon - 3D models in different format as well as textures.
In order to be able to 3D print a Pokemon you will first have to obtain a 3D model of the pocket monster or you can of course design one yourself, but that one is only for the advanced users, so getting the 3D model is actually the easier thing. Today I'm back to 3D printing and I want to tell you how you can 3D print your favorite Pokemon or just about any Pokemon without too much effort if you already have a 3D printer available at home/office or at least have access to one.