Hi eric, I'm glad the patch solved the problem.

But yeah it is not very economical to rapid prototype something more than 1 foot tall.

Something more like 4 or 5 inches in size is more like it...

For something smaller like that, shapeways seems to have really good prices, even down to something like $20 or so which is pretty amazing (this kind of stuff used to cost several hundred dollars minimum). But the price must go up steeply once you get over a certain size.

- Michael