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3D Printing ship designs?

May 10, 2014 11:56:56 PM from Galactic Civilizations III ForumsGalactic Civilizations III Forums

As I was designing a ship in the new ship builder, I thought to myself "a 3D printed version of this would be pretty cool". I doubt I'm the only one, but I hadn't seen anything posted yet so I thought I'd throw it out there.

Would it be possible to export ship designs from the designer in a format that could be fed to a 3D printer?

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Mutagen Prime
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Reply #1 May 11, 2014 12:37:33 AM
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It would be possible to export as a standard model format im guessing. But most 3D printers have their own propriety modeling system. So model export im assuming yes, conversion would be up to 3D printer manufacturer 

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Reply #2 May 11, 2014 4:47:18 AM
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Eventually, I guess. From Frogboy:

Quoting Frogboy,
reply 20

Export won't be in this build so 3D printing of ship designs isn't ready yet.

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Reply #3 May 11, 2014 8:28:42 AM
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textures unwrapping as substitute for papercraft?

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Reply #4 May 11, 2014 8:47:51 AM
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We plan to let you export your ships to a 3D printable format, this proves to have a few more challenges than we would like, but it is a planned feature. 

We already got a 3D Printer so we can test it, in house. So i for one am very excited about it.

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Reply #5 May 11, 2014 9:14:01 AM
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Still, what about papercraft? Not everyone has 3D printer, and I doubt my superiors will be happy if I start printing my "crusade fleet". Besides, you'll be doing papercraft with your own hands, not just watching printer making it.

P.S. Any plans going scale (including die-cast) model market?

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Reply #6 May 11, 2014 10:20:59 AM
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You know what I'm looking forward to? Painting it.

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Reply #7 May 11, 2014 12:17:50 PM
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Quoting mormegil,
reply 4
We already got a 3D Printer so we can test it, in house. So i for one am very excited about it.

Sometime in the "soon" future:

Dev Stream + 3D printed models + devs playing with them = fans going crazy about it

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Reply #8 May 11, 2014 6:53:01 PM
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Quoting ParagonRenegade,
reply 6

You know what I'm looking forward to? Painting it.

*excited roar on the background*

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Reply #9 May 12, 2014 3:00:00 PM
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Would this mean I can finally make my own Star Wars and Star Trek ship minutes that I always wanted?

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Reply #10 May 12, 2014 6:17:36 PM
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While I love this idea I have 0 ( none , nada, zip, zilch ) artistic ability and couldn't design I ship if my life depended on it. 

Most of the time in gc2 I just took a standees template threw a few weapons on and said done. Which is sad cause I'd really like to see cool ships I just can't make them myself

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