Nonlinear FDM Toolpaths
Making Things and Stuff: Idea 1 I would like to make a funky layered ring, using some of the seams and ways the printer will print to make patterns and texture. Some stuff from class: Set up for the ring: Making various circles for a smooth inside and funky shapes for the layered outside. Layering them circle, funky, circle, funky; going up by the size of the layer size of the printer. The finished rat's nest. Set up: Used the homemade definition from class to try and see a model of it. Only, this happened. So, I had to make a box around the rat nest to then be able to cut it and do all that other stuff. Which only cut the normal circles and not the squiggly lines, but good enough. Then I used the provided gcode to set up the file for in-class printing. And here is the set up for streaming the gcode. Other Things and More Stuff: Idea 2 Talking with my group for the final project, we decided that part of it would be us pri...