Hair 3D print

xavierator

Dear,

Can the Daz hairs be 3D printed ?

I tried some samples but the hair is never printed

Thanks, Xavi

Linwelly

I believe there were some hair created with the idea of being printed at the shop, back when printing licenses where implemented. but I don't have an example, Most hairs consist of layers without depth (if not strand based which is no good for printing either.

You might have luck with some of the toon hairs

Leana

Yes, toon hair seem a better option for 3D printing.

A few were suggested here: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/710241/3d-printable-hair

thistledownsname

There used to be a plugin that would upload the model, process it for 20 minutes, then send back a printable STL.  But the company for that discontinued the service.

What you can do is export as an obj, then open it up in a model editor like Meshmixer.  Select the faces for the hair geometry, then have it extrude them around 0.2mm.  Then they become solid object that can be printed.  It takes a lot of futzing to clean it up though.

xavierator

Thanks for these information

I will try it

 

richardandtracy

I also think it depends on the hair and printer being used. I don't know anything about printing strand based hair. I suspect it's either very difficult or needs additional software. The printing I have done is with polygonal hair. SLA printers using the Chitu Box slicer tend to produce solid layers even if the hair is actually open sheets of polygons. If the hair forms a closed 2D shape on a slice, it's made solid. This can work with clothing too, and sometimes altering the figure's printing angle can solidify parts that would need modelling to otherwise correct. The most success I had was with old Victoria 3 hairs that were made from tubes - rather like a toon/anime hair. Regards, Richard.

WendyLuvsCatz

I used the unified skin feature in Zbrush for the few things I printed before DRM not recognising thier own filament cartridges made my DaVinci printer useless