The following are some screen captures of the "Slicing" Software for the Creality K1 Max 3D printer. They just upgraded this printer, so for a billion dollars more, I can add 5 different filament colors and materials. Nice to see that it is still up-gradable. Below is the finished boat with all the supports. Not very inviting, but those supports are extremely thing, and pull out with your fingers or tiny pliers, or tweezers. The Hull needed no supports. Usually vertical surfaces like this don't. Under these pictures a screen grabs of the Creality Slicing software, which gives you an idea of how the boat will look, or if in fact, it will print. It is at this point you set support to auto and go for it. Only personal models, I design my own supports, and usually a minimal amount, but this is teaching me that a few more, that will leave no trace. As you can see, on the screen the supports look quite daunting, but reality they aren't, as long as the model isn't small, because it gets hard to tell the support from the model. The final model will be cleaned up, then painted. From beginning to end, this model took around 6 hours to do. I think one could have been made in paper in the same amount of time. The hull may not have been so smooth, unless done in individual lapstrake strips, then it may have looked even more accurate. A great model. It was a free download. I'm trying to remmeber where I got it from, but like I said, it's not mine, annd the designer threw it to the digital wind giving anyone permission to do what they wanted with it. If I find the site, I'll post it in this thread.
