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#12>What’s NOT yet working: the physical print
So, nothing to show.
Next.
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#13Do you have a photos of objects you build with this? A video?
No, unfortunately. I've printed a ton of objects but nothing clean enough to be interesting. The top of cells always melt as I'm using the same material for injection and the rest of the print. Someone with a dual nozzle printer could try something like PLA injection in a polycarbonate part. I added support but don't have a printer capable of that. It's also possible that different print settings would work. I'm rele…
I’m surprised you bothered writing software instead of writing some G code by hand for testing
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#14Why do you think this is better than the old practice of filling straight holes a few layers deep?
Is that available in any of the standard slicers?
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#15>What’s NOT yet working: the physical print So, nothing to show. Next.
This is how science works. Share your failed experiments, someone else picks it up. Eventually it may work, or not.
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#16Instead of one large channel throughout the whole print, why not multiple small 2-4 layer bridges?
I had the same thought -- with a checkerboard pattern of 1:1:2 "brick" voids where each brick would be surrounded by bricks of a differing offset, one could conceivably calibrate the injection step and the print might have less propensity to cleave along xy planes. But, given the complexity of that calibration (and need for a high-flow head) I'd rather use the brick infill available today.
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#17> What’s NOT yet working:
Oh Claude~
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, unfortunately. I've printed a ton of objects but nothing clean enough to be interesting. The top of cells always melt as I'm using the same material for injection and the rest of the print. Someone with a dual nozzle printer could try something like PLA injection in a polycarbonate part. I added support but don't have a printer capable of that. It's also possible that different print settings would work. I'm rele…
I’m surprised you bothered writing software instead of writing some G code by hand for testing
when you have claude everything looks like a software problem :)
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#19Re: Show HN: 3D print Z reinforcement via injected loops
#20Hmm, I wonder if a simpler room-temp alternative would be to fill a low-infill print with 2-part resin. In a way that would be a bit like casting, except you wouldn't ever remove "the mold".