Hello,
My name is Matthew Whitby and I need help with designing a 3 foot by 3 foot by 3 foot Richard Nixon Head to be worn by a person. I have an STL file of his head and converted into a DWG in order to use it with AutoCad, but I do not know how to modify the model to make it more of a caricature. If anyone could provide assistance or advice it would be greatly appreciated. Also, I would like some advice on how to properly slice the model into pieces in order to fit in 3D printer’s build volume and various methods of bonding the pieces together. Thank you for your time.
Matthew Whitby
Please tell me that you are then going to put this head in a jar, and then build a headless Spiro Agnew to go with it. 
— Zach
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Im looking to 3D print the whole thing for the sake of printing it and for sturdiness. This head will be in a performance so it needs to be pretty strong. I need help with taking the polyface mesh of Nixon’s head and converting it into some sort of form in which I can modify it. I need to stretch out his nose and add more wrinkles.
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If you used a Pepakura-style paper model and then used fiberglass and resin after assembly, it would be plenty strong. This approach is often used by cosplay modellers to extract models from games and bring them to life.
IMHO, 3D printing is the wrong approach here. Using heavy cardstock and lasering a pepakura model (or a greatly decimated STL file which was then unfolded), then using fiberglass will yield a better outcome. Re: the charaturing (sp?) of the model is more of an artistic rather than a crafting issue, but you could laser and assemble the model as-is, and then use paper mache on the resulting head to exaggerate certain features prior to fiberglassing.
Well, regardless of the approach of building it, I would like to learn how to modify STLs with AutoCad or other softwares for the sake of knowledge.
