According to a MakePrintable blog post by the company’s CTO and co-founder Baha Abu Nojaim, “Mammoth is one of those species that when 3D designed will have a lot of complexities due to hair on the body, the large size of the mammoth is an indication to the complexity and large file sizes we can handle and the fact that it is a legendary creature is enough to give our new technology the name it deserves.”
“Mammoth is bringing in fabulous feedback and a higher average star rating on the model repair method than our original tech,” Mixed Dimensions Marketing Director Michael Makdah told 3DPrint.com.
“More 3D Makers are satisfied fixing models with it and favor it to our first tech and thats why decided to make it our primary solution.”
Mammoth also lets users control the generated 3D file’s polygon count, and even reduce the count without causing print issues. The above model with green highlights is the original Turbosquid file and has over 400,000 boundary edges and many intersecting geometries, but even with reducing the number of polygons, Mammoth took less than two minutes to repair the file.
- Fast fixes – GPU cloud computing combines with a voxel approach to rebuild the model’s mesh, so 3D printing happens in seconds
- Bubble removal from inside the geometry
- Large file processing
- Retains a model’s mechanical integrity by making sure its exterior dimensions don’t change during repairs
- Accurate, parameterized, and selective wall thickness
- Flipped faces, boundary edges, wall thickness, and non-manifolds are considered and corrected inside the mesh repair algorithm
- User controls which holes are closed during repair
- Accurately hollowing the mesh reduces the surface area, so no more wasted time or materials
René le Grand, CEO of AllOnScale, said, “The experience has been great and complex models have been fixed with ease. It’s a great advantage to not need to have the computing power in-house. MakePrintable has fixed models that other software’s failed to fix.”
“Mammoth is now our primary Repair tech; you can switch between mammoth and the original repair tech if you would like to see a comparison. All free users will have access to Mammoth repairs for the next two weeks after (Sep-20-017). After the two week promotion, we will switch back to the original repair solution and Mammoth becomes exclusive to our premium members,” Nojaim notes in today’s detailed announcement.
Discuss in the Mammoth forum at 3DPB.com.
[All Images: Mixed Dimensions]