Nest Project - Full sized print

Hello there, after tweaking the design to even up the outside walls as well as doing a little smoothing, I took the stl file I exported from blender and imported it into the makerware. The makerware took a long time to convert it to a x3g file but it got there in the end. Here is a shot of the nest in the makerware.

Tho bounding box represents the build size so the model was as wide as it could be. Once it was sliced up I put it onto the sd card the the makerbot and let it go. Twenty hours later I came back to find this.

The print had worked! As you can see the support structure has warped a little bit but that didn't matter because the print itself was solid enough to hold it's shape. After an hour or so of destructuring I had a finished product.

The lady who commissioned these pieces was quite happy with the result and asked if I could produce a few more. The second full size print came out well, the third was a failure but it wasn't the machines fault. The filament had been taped to the spool halfway through the reel so at some stage during the night the filament had run out and the print was only half done. I put another one on with the hope that the filament left was enough to produce a full one.

Unfortunately there was not enough but a very small amount. The filament had run out about two centimetres from the top so it was very disappointing to see. After a call to the artist it was agreed that I would print another one in white ABS. The first attempt ended in total failure because the build was knocked off the plate a few hours in. The white ABS seemed to be a lot more prone to warping. With great trepidation I put another one on and came back to check it about four hours into the build. The print was hanging onto the plate by a thread and rocking back and forth as the print head moved over it. There was nothing I could do so I left it to it over the weekend would find out on the Monday if it worked.

By some miracle it had printed out so I quickly destructured it and it was sent off the Albury that day with the other nests. Regarding the exhibition they will be shown at I will have to gather more information but as far as the project is concerned, it is complete.