Non conventional 3D Print challenges (GCode)
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Non conventional 3D Print challenges (GCode)
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Re: Non conventional 3D Print challenges (GCode)
#2Usually you try to avoid overhangs but this experiments makes you realize of the true limits of the 3d printer.
I'm gonna try the Pin Support Challenge next weekend.
Re: Non conventional 3D Print challenges (GCode)
#3Usually you try to avoid overhangs but this experiments makes you realize of the true limits of the 3d printer. I'm gonna try the Pin Support Challenge next weekend. https://www.instagram.com/p/CjVvw5xjt2o/
PLA gets so much stronger when annealed. Would it be within the spirit of the challenge to print this upside-down so that it can support the sphere, but only after annealing? Or you could anneal the pillar with a small heater as you print it.
Re: Non conventional 3D Print challenges (GCode)
#4Usually you try to avoid overhangs but this experiments makes you realize of the true limits of the 3d printer. I'm gonna try the Pin Support Challenge next weekend. https://www.instagram.com/p/CjVvw5xjt2o/
PLA gets so much stronger when annealed. Would it be within the spirit of the challenge to print this upside-down so that it can support the sphere, but only after annealing? Or you could anneal the pillar with a small heater as you print it.
Oh my God I didn't even realize this was a thing. Thank you and there goes my evening! :-)
Re: Non conventional 3D Print challenges (GCode)
#5So what's FullControl? Modeling software? Control/driver software? I'm not very versed in 3D printing and I can't really understand their "about" text.
Re: Non conventional 3D Print challenges (GCode)
#6So what's FullControl? Modeling software? Control/driver software? I'm not very versed in 3D printing and I can't really understand their "about" text.
It's a bunch of Visual Basic behind an Excel spreadsheet, that helps you generate gcode directly, rather than via CAD/slicers. That gives a level of control that is awful and wonderful. There are a bunch of youtube short videos with demonstrations.
I'm interested in printing small parts containers very fast ... just open topped boxes ... and am looking forward to trying this with big nozzles.
Re: Non conventional 3D Print challenges (GCode)
#7So what's FullControl? Modeling software? Control/driver software? I'm not very versed in 3D printing and I can't really understand their "about" text.
It's a bunch of Visual Basic behind an Excel spreadsheet, that helps you generate gcode directly, rather than via CAD/slicers. That gives a level of control that is awful and wonderful. There are a bunch of youtube short videos with demonstrations. I'm interested in printing small parts containers very fast ... just open topped boxes ... and am looking forward to trying this with big nozzles.
So does it allow you to do things that slicers wouldn't do? Or use tricks that slicers wouldn't use? Like inline assembly is used in programming?
I am confused about how this helps with printing those parts shown on the website.
Re: Non conventional 3D Print challenges (GCode)
#8I wrote a python library for directly generating GCode when I was working at a university lab that needed more direct control over their very high end 3D printers. You can check it out here:
https://github.com/jminardi/mecode
Its been a few years since I have worked on it but from what I understand the lab members are still using it.
Re: Non conventional 3D Print challenges (GCode)
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a bunch of Visual Basic behind an Excel spreadsheet, that helps you generate gcode directly, rather than via CAD/slicers. That gives a level of control that is awful and wonderful. There are a bunch of youtube short videos with demonstrations. I'm interested in printing small parts containers very fast ... just open topped boxes ... and am looking forward to trying this with big nozzles.
So does it allow you to do things that slicers wouldn't do? Or use tricks that slicers wouldn't use? Like inline assembly is used in programming? I am confused about how this helps with printing those parts shown on the website.
Yes and no. Several of these could probably be done with a proper model and "vase mode" in a normal slicer. However, others are simply not possible in a normal slicer because slicers limit you to planar layers and moves. So for example the pin-support challenge cannot be done in a slicer because they would try to slice the pillar into many individual layers with retractions and moves instead of continuously extruding while increasing the z-height as this gcode does. Similarly, the non-planar spacer wouldn't work in a normal slicer either because it's non-planar by design.
Re: Non conventional 3D Print challenges (GCode)
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
So does it allow you to do things that slicers wouldn't do? Or use tricks that slicers wouldn't use? Like inline assembly is used in programming? I am confused about how this helps with printing those parts shown on the website.
Yes and no. Several of these could probably be done with a proper model and "vase mode" in a normal slicer. However, others are simply not possible in a normal slicer because slicers limit you to planar layers and moves. So for example the pin-support challenge cannot be done in a slicer because they would try to slice the pillar into many individual layers with retractions and moves instead of continuously extruding…
We need 3D slicers, surely someone tried to make AI for that already ?