{"id":950,"date":"2019-02-05T08:05:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T08:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/storiesfrombones\/?page_id=950"},"modified":"2019-02-24T22:32:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T22:32:09","slug":"print","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/storiesfrombones\/print\/","title":{"rendered":"3D Printing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The meshed 3D model can also be used to produce a plastic version of the bone. To do so, it is necessary to convert the file into a suitable format (.STL in most cases), and send the new file to a 3D printer. The machine uses melted plastic to build the object; it melts a plastic filament through an extrusion head and deposits the material line-by-line on a build platform according to the digital design.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1012 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/storiesfrombones\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/326\/2019\/02\/print1-300x257.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/storiesfrombones\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/326\/2019\/02\/print1-300x257.png 300w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/storiesfrombones\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/326\/2019\/02\/print1-768x658.png 768w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/storiesfrombones\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/326\/2019\/02\/print1-350x300.png 350w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/storiesfrombones\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/326\/2019\/02\/print1-233x200.png 233w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/storiesfrombones\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/326\/2019\/02\/print1-175x150.png 175w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/storiesfrombones\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/326\/2019\/02\/print1-583x500.png 583w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/storiesfrombones\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/326\/2019\/02\/print1.png 829w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Each time a layer is finished, the build platform steps down relative to the extruder head and the process is repeated layer-by-layer until the object is complete, as shown in the video below.<\/p>\n<p><video class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/storiesfrombones\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/326\/2019\/02\/3D-printing.mov\" width=\"600\" controls><br \/>\n<\/video><\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-950\" data-postid=\"950\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-950 themify_builder\">\n\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The meshed 3D model can also be used to produce a plastic version of the bone. To do so, it is necessary to convert the file into a suitable format (.STL in most cases), and send the new file to a 3D printer. The machine uses melted plastic to build the object; it melts a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1420,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-950","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/storiesfrombones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/storiesfrombones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/storiesfrombones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/storiesfrombones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1420"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/storiesfrombones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/storiesfrombones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1286,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/storiesfrombones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/950\/revisions\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/storiesfrombones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}