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I received an email from Michael Frumin over at Eyebeam alerting me to some fabbing efforts of his. I’d not bothered to really look at the geometry I’d captured in Google Earth some time back, but his comments on the OGLE website (Link)<\/a> point out an issue to which I’d be especially sensitive:<\/p>\n The 3D buildings OGLE’d from Google Earth are not ready to be 3D printed off the bat. Each building is a composition of multiple vertical volumes that have walls and a ceiling but no floor. By computationally (i.e. hacked up OBJ-file-processing perl script!) copying all of the roof polygons to floor polygons, we got the job done:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n A script that offsets a copy of the polygons so that thin-wall models can be fabbed instead of solid chunks is hopefully somewhere on his “To Do” list. I’ve not had much time lately to even visit the OGLE forum so maybe that’s been discussed. Will need to make time to surf over and see what kinds of cool things people have been doing.<\/p>\n {Image source: Eyebeam OpenLab<\/a>}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I received an email from Michael Frumin over at Eyebeam alerting me to some fabbing efforts of his. I’d not bothered to really look at the geometry I’d captured in Google Earth some time back, but his comments on the … Continue reading