I just found and watched your SciPy talk. The 3d-printed geology puzzle is really cool!
Yeah, the British print is basically the bottomless box you show at 15:16, but with much thinner walls - I don't have it anymore but I'd say theirs are about .3 millimeter thick. I suppose that's also why you paid three times more.
Since they don't have a bottom lid, they apply their bottom texture underneath the top.
How difficult do you think it would be to clip the print along a border, e.g. the border of Alaska?
I erred on the side of too thick walls instead of too thin, as I was a bit worried about durability. They're thicker than they need to be, though. It would definitely drop costs to make them thinner.
As far as clipping along an arbitrary border, it shouldn't be difficult. I haven't actually made a model with a non-square border yet, but I've been meaning to for awhile. I probably won't have time to in the next few months, though. If you give it a try, let me know how it goes!
Yeah, the British print is basically the bottomless box you show at 15:16, but with much thinner walls - I don't have it anymore but I'd say theirs are about .3 millimeter thick. I suppose that's also why you paid three times more.
Since they don't have a bottom lid, they apply their bottom texture underneath the top.
How difficult do you think it would be to clip the print along a border, e.g. the border of Alaska?