Friday, May 18, 2007

 

Support material miracle

While playing around with the PLA, I (Vik) noticed that the PLA can be formed into loops that would normally require support material. It might be possible to use the rapid hardening properties of PLA to build objects without support material in some cases:


# posted by vik-olliver @ 7:15 AM
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LOL! HDPE and HPP both do that as well. :-)

I don't know if the firmware for Zaphod allows a coordinated xyz trajectory to be plotted. Right now Tommelise can only do xy trajectories and z's separately.
# posted by Blogger Forrest Higgs : May 18, 2007 12:15 PM
 
Just 2 axis. There's a bug in the cooling period that shows this that I must fix one day...

Vik :v)
# posted by Blogger vik-olliver : May 18, 2007 10:08 PM
 
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