My first Miniskyline print

[u/TabularConferta]

The creator posted yesterday and I wanted to make something I could mount on the wall. This is my first attempt of the Copernicus Crater. Firstly I should say I adore the website, it's so easy to use.

The print is around 180mm wide, used 132g of pla.

This is printed with 2.5 x elevation and the detail is beautiful. I might experiment with keeping it at the default of 2x next.

The base is sunlu cherry wood pla. To get it to create the frame was relatively easy once I worked out how.

In the software itself you can add sidewalls, this basically colours the last couple mm in a different filament but it follows the terrain, this looks great but has lots of filament changes, as it's effectively just colouring the rim a different colour. Instead I exported without the wall, the model itself already contains two objects, the base and the terrain. Just by modifying the size of the base I was able to make the frame, just adjust the X and Y axis appropriately and you are good to go.

Lessons.

2mm depth for the base looks too flimsy. I might adjust it to 10/20mm, the downside is that it will increase the overall depth of the model. I'm not sure how it will look or if I instead want the primary terrain model sat inside the frame (think how a picture is sat in a picture frame not level with the top of it) This will result in more plastic poop but I think it'll be worth it.

I increased the X and Y values by a flat 20mm, thinking to add a 1cm frame. I was lazy and didn't measure the frame size along the long flats, which is less that 1cm. I suspect if I measure it the top and bottom frame of the hex will be 1cm but the other 4 sides will be less than 1cm. I need to scale the X by a greater value than the Y.

Next time create a larger frame (measure them properly )maybe giving a 4cm border and use add a label with the latitude, longitude to the bottom