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A project log for 3D printed "Magic Spring"

I made a "Magic Spring"(slinky) on a 3d printer.

mpclausermpclauser 03/10/2017 at 16:020 Comments

A note on what i refer to as layer height;

Cura would say my print is 1 layer tall(it only checks comments for layer:X)

Repetier-Host will say my print is tens of thousands of layers tall(it counts every increse in Z as a layer(i assume for the printers with y as vertical, it coutns Y))

I say my print is 150 layer tall(i count a layer as a full rotation of the helix, or one separate cross section)

so, when I say my layer height is .47, I mean that if one "layer" of the slinky is measured it should ideally be .47mm tall(i'm getting a bit more than that, it's not completely flat across the layer)

The plastic is actually adhering to the path extruded immediately before it, and not(hopefully) to the previous "layer", so maybe Repetier is the most right, and my layer height is actually 0.000648mm

I have printed 1.5mm tall layers of the slinky with a 0.6mm nozzle and it looks good



so, even though the layer height seems a bit extreme for the nozzle size, nothing about this print conforms to traditional slicer logic.

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