Talk:3D printing of digital elevation models with QGIS

DEMto3D "spacing" setting -- Monolith (talk) 12:43, 17 January 2019 (CET)

Hi Daniel

Thanks for the helpful tutorial on using this plugin. I've been struggling with the "spacing" setting, though, as referenced in section 3.1 on this page -- what exactly does it control? I'm also confused by the instructions next to the setting, e.g. "minimum recommended 0.2mm"... in which direction do we move this setting to get away from the minimum? As model size increases, the minimum recommended spacing value gets larger, so I've been assuming that this setting is counter-intuitive with its use of language like "minimum" and "larger", in that for a model that has 0.2mm recommended as a 'minimum', the only direction you'd want to go is to a lower value, e.g. 0.1mm.

I tried to get in touch with the author of the plugin without any success, so hoping you might have some insight. Thank you for making this wonderful resource available!

Monolith (talk) 12:43, 17 January 2019 (CET)