OOTA ("Out-Of-Thin-Air")

3D Printing and Photo-to-Object Fabrication

 

RL WESTLY, PLLC creates 3D prints to assist in your project needs whether its related to environmental or professional writing services. The MakerBot Replicator 2 currently is used for these prints.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bob designed and drafted text for two plaques for Personhood Florida and used the MakerBot Replicator 2 to fabricate the plaques. The plaques were printed using a biodegradable plastic with raised lettering that was then painted.  These plaques have magnetic tape on their backs for display on metal surfaces a set similar to these prototypes currently are in use on a church information center for Personhood Florida.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ideas for the use of 3D printing are only limited by the limits of your creativity.

 

OOTA Creations (see www.facebook.com/OOTACreations) has grown out of RL WESTLY, PLLC to offer it's "out-of-thin-air" services on all manner of stuff.  Here are a selection of 3D creations for your viewing pleasure! This is the MakerBot Replicator 2 build platform and build volume as shown on the computer screen in the form of a wire-frame diagram.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• The soldier< "The Warrior," on the left of the build platform can be seen in person at the War Memorial Park in Milton, Florida. The real life bronze sculpture of "The Warrior" stands about 10 feet tall.  The 3D print was created from approximately 70 photographs taken by Bob of this memorial to heroism. No, Bob's not a professional photographer.  Customers and clients can take such images for production of 3D prints.  Just ask how and OOTA Creations will convert the photos to a three-dimensional image and print it out!

 

• The Mustang is a copy of a hand-sized marble carving, also created from approximately 70 photographs of the Mustang, which were taken with the Mustang set on a table-top turn table.

 

• The key ring tag referencing Hebrews 10:26 was designed and printed from scratch using a computer-aided drafting program.

 

• The doggie w/camera is Friend of a Friend's Pet Photography's logo converted from a jpeg 2-d image.

 

• The spider is a print from another designer's electronic 3-d file; and the plain oblong "container" was designed and printed from scratch to serve as a Plaster-of-Paris mold to collect casts of animal footprints.

 

Once an electronic 3D image is placed on the MakerBot wire-frame build platform, it can be re-sized before printing, with the maximum size of the MakerBot Replicator 2 build volume of 6 x 6 x 11 inches (tall x deep x wide).

 

 

Here's one of the latest OOTA Creations creations:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This "bust" was fabricated from approximately 60 photographs of the subject and rests on the MakerBot Fabricator 2 build platform immediately after completion of the print. The support structure for the bust has yet to be removed.

 

Finally (for now), below is a hand-specimen sized model of a completed landfill which shows one environmental application of an OOTA Creations creation.  The print file was provided by SCS Engineers and was created in AutoCad from existing cad designs of the completed landfill.  3D prints also can be created from photography of an existing landfill or other large-scale object (same basic techique as discussed above for "The Warrior"); however, the camera platform would be airborn, such as a plane, helicopter, or drone.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drone-based aerial photography is the most cost effective approach to obtaining the large number of photographs in real time of large-scale objects.  3D print models of large-scale objects are available through RL WESTLY, PLLC in association with SCS Engineers.  Although the OOTA Creations objects shown here are limited to a print volume of 6x6x11 inches, industrial-grade 3D printers are now available to print virtually unlimited sizes and detail.  If you are interested, contact RL WESTLY, PLLC.