Print quality

[greenwoods1462]

Hello - I have made a few models now in Fusion 360 and when uploaded to Shapeways I have got an excellent surface quality....very smooth finish.

But with the model (which is very similar to others I have built and not had this problem) in the attached file I can see just by looking at the Shapeway image the vectoring is not so good...

Is there anything I can do to make the model smoother without losing detail?

When I broke the model up the quality improved a bit so I am wondering if I have simply exceeded some threshold....seems strange as this is a relatively small model, but all the rivets on the smokebox door are dropped in as spheres on a "follow path"....so I guess they take up alot of geometry.

As always all help gratefully received!

[wmhazzard]

I would be surprised if Shapeways could do anything with that. In the smokebox there are hundreds of empty components and three components with hundreds of bodies in them. In the assembly file you have multiple overlapping bodies. I can't imagine how you did all that. What I would do is turn off capture design history and delete all the empty components and then combine all the rivets to the shell. In the assembly only include one of each component so there are no multiple bodies. Maybe then the model will keep the detail that you need. 

[greenwoods1462 · Accepted solution]

thank you - this is good coaching.....will follow your advice.  Direct feedback very much appreciated.