I printed a huge batch of connectors to make a 15ft structure out of plastic
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Re: I printed a huge batch of connectors to make a 15ft structure out of plastic
#2I use FreeCAD and Blender for a lot of my technical design/engineering work. I am happy to see a physics solution in Blender that seems suited to the task of filling the volume with the parts.
I like the fact that you can use Hylang to program both Blender and FreeCAD via their Python APIs. No need to, I just like Lisp!
Re: I printed a huge batch of connectors to make a 15ft structure out of plastic
#3Very cool approach to scaling a project out of small components.
I wonder if the print time is 144 parts in 36 hours or 36 hours per print. Thats 15 minutes a print if it is the former!
Re: I printed a huge batch of connectors to make a 15ft structure out of plastic
#4Very cool approach to scaling a project out of small components. I wonder if the print time is 144 parts in 36 hours or 36 hours per print. Thats 15 minutes a print if it is the former!
Both. All in one print!
Re: I printed a huge batch of connectors to make a 15ft structure out of plastic
#5Very cool approach to scaling a project out of small components. I wonder if the print time is 144 parts in 36 hours or 36 hours per print. Thats 15 minutes a print if it is the former!
My understanding was that by packing the parts they could do 144 parts in one print, and that one print took 36 hours. By using SLS they don't need support structures
Re: I printed a huge batch of connectors to make a 15ft structure out of plastic
#6There's a more detailed tutorial on how to use physics to do 3D part packing here:
Re: I printed a huge batch of connectors to make a 15ft structure out of plastic
#7I made something similar a while back! Took somewhere between 150-200 hours to print 60 connectors. I had to design the parts with a flat side so I could print them in PLA.
https://danwink.com/blog/2016/06/19/dowel-structure-with-3d-...
Re: I printed a huge batch of connectors to make a 15ft structure out of plastic
#8I made something similar a while back! Took somewhere between 150-200 hours to print 60 connectors. I had to design the parts with a flat side so I could print them in PLA. https://danwink.com/blog/2016/06/19/dowel-structure-with-3d-...
Cool! I love it.
Re: I printed a huge batch of connectors to make a 15ft structure out of plastic
#9Ugh, what's with these obnoxious buttons? https://sr.ht/S3w1.png
I'm so tired of endless barages of SUB TO OUR NEWSLETTER and LIKE US ON FB and TWEET THE SHIT OUT OF THIS PLEASE on every goddamn website.
Re: I printed a huge batch of connectors to make a 15ft structure out of plastic
#10Using physics simulation to pack parts more closely together is such a good idea. Nothing like a little shake to get things packed together.