Portal turret By Scott Bruins on 23 Jun 17:29

Did you actually made it in real life?

No unfortunately not, but ive wanted to make one as a computer case for a while. If I ever get the free time or $ I will!

What!? As a computer case? This belongs in the front yard, scaring off kids, thieves and tax collectors.

Scott, I presented GrabCAD in a pitching event today and your file was a real eye-catcher.

NICE. definitely want to use this for some renderings.

Looking forward to it Josh specially after I saw what Burhop did with Jon's glasses.

Id love to see some renderings of this by a pro!

so Josh, you now have a weekend project

For those of you who don't know what this is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i-nMWgBUp0.

I can't wait for Portal 2!

400 Downloads!

Nice one Scott.

Hey, I actually was able to print it out using my school's Dimension printer. I have to wait, for the soluble support to get removed in the heat bath, but when that's done I'll post some pics.

Very cool! Let me know how it turns out!

http://heavy-props-guy.deviantart.com/art/3d-Printer-Portal-Turret-204934519

here. I haven't painted it yet. The back leg is REALLY fragile, and the printer didn't have the DPI to make the laboratory turn out quite so good. That said, the base looks amazing.

oh and the other two pics are http://heavy-props-guy.deviantart.com/#/d3e0gqi and http://heavy-props-guy.deviantart.com/#/d3e0grt respectively.

Looks good Steve! Ill try and print one on our printer at work. I tried once already but the back leg broke off so Ill scale the STL up a bit and try again. It is a fragile model but I wanted to keep it as close to the game model as possible so the legs are very skinny.

yeah, this one was 1/8th, and that seemed to go OK..... until I tried to paint it, and the glue failed.

I think ideally, it'd be a metal sculpture, considering.

although, I think quarter, or 6th scale would probably be better off.

Yeah its a pretty flimsy model. Ill see if I can work up a bit chunkier version to help with 3D printing. Although It would be a very cool die-cast model! :)

Can't wait for Portal 2!! Any day now. Awesome model, I just wish it was in SW 2010 format...

Portal 2 is out now! It released last night, I can't wait to get home and play!

What!?! Why am I at work?

I know!!! Arrg, I should have taken the day off! You should e-mail me your steam name. We could start a GrabCAD group lol. I'm looking forward to the multilayer, its going to be crazy!

I went with the Portal craze and collected some fun ways of making your very own turret (paper model, Lego), couple of cool videos as a bonus. And if you two have anything to add about 3D printing this model then do drop a comment in the blog post.

http://blog.grabcad.com/2011/04/portal-turret-3d-model-print/

Yo. Here's the .STL for people's convenience. Portal Turret

@Steve- Thanks for the upload!

@Siim- Awesome post! I love the lego turret :). I just finished the single player of Portal 2 last night and it is great! The puzzles are harder, the dialog is hilarious and the graphics are beautiful.

Scott, information for you - this model was viewed 1312 times today

How big is it? because i have an idea but im not sure if anyone can make it..

Best turret model I've seen!
Is it possible to save it as a SolidWorks 2010 version?

I would also like to see it as a 2010 version...

I'm seriously considering trying to tackle Atlas or P-body in SolidWorks. Is anyone interested in a group effort?

I have been crazy busy lately but Id be up for the challenge! I think P-body would be a bit easier. That would be a fun 3D print!

I'll put together a shared Dropbox folder sometime soon with images. If anyone would like access to the project folder, send me an email at dherzberg@alum.wpi.edu with the SolidWorks version you prefer (2010 or 2011). This is gonna be fun!

Daniel, what wouldn't you use GrabCAD for that. You can share stuff here privately. IF you it's not as good as dropbox, let me know (hardi@grabcad.com) and we will improve it.

More portal stuff! YAY! BTW check these out ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db43pjAhqfA&feature=feedlik )

Happy explosion day

Also, I had no idea you could collaborate via GrabCAD. How do you do that? Dropbox syncs between computers automatically, and you don't have to upload and download each time, or worry about version control.

Daniel, yep that's true. You can directly open file in dropbox, we dont have that functionality, but thanks for bringing that up. I think if we can solve that, it will be better than DropBox.

You may consider tying your SolidWorks plugin into the new n!fuze collabiration tool: http://blogs.solidworks.com/solidworksblog/solidworks-nfuze/

Well, you can cross Companion Cube off the checklist Companion Cube :)

you know, I think I'm going to make a bust of chell and maybe a glados while we're doing this. although i'm going to uh... "cheat"

Cheat how? Also, updates on the co-op bot project can be found here: http://danherzberg.posterous.com/were-not-banging-rocks-together-here-portal-b

Still accepting volunteers!

sweet! but the cheating is actually just converting the file. The valve developer community has a process for turning the original valve model file (.MDL) into a workable CAD format. in fact, that's how I made my portal turret, by going through 3ds max and then just importing it into autocad.

that said, you'll probably get an inconvertable mesh at the end, which does you no good.

the catch is, this works with ANY model even the really hard to work with soft bodies.

My contributions so far

https://picasaweb.google.com/bruins.scott/PortalStuff?authkey=Gv1sRgCInk6b3h9qSoHg&feat=directlink

The gun is 95% done the Space core is 70% done.

Thank you, Scott. This is nice modeling.

Awesome model Scott

I made the black lens cover that is shown on some of the portal turrets...

http://i.materialise.com/blog/entry/a-new-i-materialise-3d-printing-material-prime-gray

cool! One of my favourite games

Added STL file at 1:8 scale and hollow base for 3D printing.

1000 downloads! Thanks everyone!

Congrats, I don't have the data but I bet this is the most downloaded model

iPhone has a few hundred more downloads, this is #2 with Aston Martini sports car almost catching up.

As if you needed more comments on this but crossing the 1000 download mark is worth mentioning. Nice one!

I guess keyshot is a department of Aperture laboratories?

Not keyshot, everything I do is in photoview 360.

I think Robert was referring to the logo on the base, it looks alot like to keyshots logo

Adam is right, still... You get fantastic results with PV, Scott!

Wicked work.
:)

Amazing model, brings back memories of me doing all nighters with friends trying to do the ingame puzzels :)

MINT!

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hi guys can anybody give me a good rendering of my 2012 Nissan GT-R car plz?i want to present it to one of my university teachers.THX

You deserve a place in my GrabCAD Mobile Office!

Amazing! But what units is it measured it?