Comment on Upgrading our folding wagon to carry 100 pounds worth of kids

HamBrick@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• IMALlama@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is buried lower in the thread, so here it is again: the face you see facing you in the CAD was the first layer. Note the inset faces at 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00 and 11:00. Due to their shape and the fact that they have a hole in the middle of them, a slicer would typically just try to print from the center out in mid air.

  Orienting the print the other way around wouldn’t have worked due to the way I decided the two halves to mesh - I would have been printing way more in mid air. This orientation also gives me a nice looking first layer facing out.

  @alkheemist@aussie.zone was right on the money, here are a few closer visuals. They’re only a layer thick. I’ve found that if I make them too wide the slicer will stop trying to turn them into a bridge.

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  Here’s one of the earlier ones before I got the spacing down. Without it my slicer would have tried to print the circular heatsert hole in midair.

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