Fractals

Please find in attachment some examples of creating fractals.

This Mathcad Prime worksheet can be found in attachment as a PDF document for a preview (for those who have trouble with opening Prime 3.1 worksheet).

Initially, I have been inserting by mistake the wrong worksheet. Here is the one I meant, sorry for all the trouble.

One more thing: In order to send it to Creo I would need Prime 3.1, and moving from MC15 to Prime can be harsh sometimes, since some of the old functionalities have changed and get lost during conversion. I will try to see if it works with bmp first.

Thank you all for your responses!

Ioana

In attachment can be found the worksheet that record matrix data into STL file format as a 3D model, which can easily be used later in Creo Parametric. But I have at the last moment of calculation when writing STL file the following error - "Not enough memory for this operation". I test it on Win 8.1 x64 with 8Gb of RAM. Can someone please check it?

P.S. For a viewing STL file format you can easily use "Online STL viewer", here: Free online STL viewer

Objective achieved!

Last week I also continued to play with Mathcad and Creo in order to create a 3D fractal model to be 3D printed later.

It may sound harsh to transform a matrix of 300 rows into a 3D-converted readable, modifiable graph but not quite as harsh as it really is. And interesting!

There were many ideas, one of them being to make a matrix of 3 strings with those strings containing some informational values from the given function, another one was to write a .stl custom function,  and other ideas such as these 2 that were driven by the Community responses to my proposed question:

After trying to create a STL file from Mathcad Prime 3.1 that I saw to be possible, according to this Demo:

http://www.ptc.com/video?id=4002771978001&account=Demos

I found out that this customized function would require a .dll with background programming so I skipped directly to this life saver tool that converts 2D images in 3D objects, aka .stl files.

http://app.selva3d.com/transform (5 free trials)

After transforming it, I still had some more steps to do - to make it solid, in order to extrude it afterwards.

Some of the steps, if anyone ever interested, can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho-t5OgEbJY

which lead to that is set at a level that contains not too many details, because otherwise, when printing, it would be very messy and many of those details would be lost anyway.

After some finishing strokes, I moved the part through MakerBot, that transformed as you may now see below:

And the tangible result:

Tada!!!

As I have previously mentioned, this was a personal project, resulted from both my passion for fractals (there are even college classes about them nowadays) and because I wanted to verify if we can create a Model/Part that uses big data (sort of) with the Mathcad-Creo Integration.

As so I have seen it works!

Other interesting 3D printed models can be found here:

https://3dprint.com/50133/3d-printed-fractals-2/

& here:

http://www.thingiverse.com/glitchpudding/collections/fractals/page:2

I have also printed 2 of them the other week:

This one http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1123004

And this one:

Best regards,

Ioana