Process: 3D Printing

In this post, I will be explaining the process for my ceiling the most important part of my design. First after having the 3D printing and laser cut workshop, I thought of the possibility of using a 3D printer fo the nonlineal part of my design, as I had never used a 3d printer before I was not sure of how it would turn out, or if it eventually worked because the layer was so thin it could have been an error during the printing or the size could have been wrong. But this did not happen I am going to explain how I accomplished this and what programs and abilities I enhance using this method. 

First I tried making the printing design in Sketchup but the result was not what I expected, so as the staff of the 3D printing workshop recommended I used TinkerCad, I had used this software before so it was easy to manipulate and create, as I establish the measurements of the piece I was going to print the space given by the website was not enough, so I came up with the idea of cutting the arch in small pieces and then pasting it together because I did not know how to print the whole piece. 

This was my original design but cause of the size I was going to break down each of the pieces into 4 equal pieces. I downloaded the file into an STL file and went into the 3D printing workshop where the staff suggested then that in order for it to be the size that I needed it could be printed vertically. Like the image below 

It printed within a day and it did not present any trouble, after sanding some parts I painted them using grey spray paint.

Tinkercad link: https://www.tinkercad.com/things/cP770cfrujK-layers?sharecode=ANZt32gHr3hk1FOBPxmwPMkQIvPddj5rCBE22RcA-Ww