Celtic Cross

thingiverse

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, this design is uploaded featuring Celtic Crosses inspired by jpearce's design (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:56629). Using my Bezier Curves script for Blender, it's a more complex application than I've attempted before and I am pleased with the result. Generating the braids geometry was easier than fixing the meshes as they were self-intersecting and produced non-manifold geometry in Bezier curves. Attempts to clean the meshes manually in Blender and MeshLab have been unsuccessful, leaving holes or self-intersecting faces. Despite the mesh issues, MakerBot MakerWare sliced it without errors. However, I'm waiting for a successful mesh cleaning before finalizing this work in progress. Suggestions on mesh cleaning methods are welcome. As for the update, Netfabb cloud service (http://cloud.netfabb.com/) repaired the mesh in two passes, leaving about 40 non-manifold vertices. The result is uploaded.