<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — 5-10 layer printing/Suncatchers??]]> 2015-07-03T21:28:19Z PunBB https://www.soliforum.com/topic/11657/510-layer-printingsuncatchers/ <![CDATA[Re: 5-10 layer printing/Suncatchers??]]> dubbsd wrote:

I was thinking of printing this.
ww.instructables.com/id/Litho-Lamp/

Looks cool. For that I anyway would pay to get it laser etched in crystal. I've had an .stl laser etched and it looked great. Photos look better.

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/783/ 2015-07-03T21:28:19Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/100406/#p100406 <![CDATA[Re: 5-10 layer printing/Suncatchers??]]> I was thinking of printing this.
ww.instructables.com/id/Litho-Lamp/

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/187/ 2015-07-03T19:40:24Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/100404/#p100404 <![CDATA[Re: 5-10 layer printing/Suncatchers??]]> heartless wrote:

what are you using for a slicer?

in Slic3r, after slicing, it will tell you how many layers are in an object to be printed... you could then scale the Z accordingly,

as for infill, either increase the top/bottom solid layers or set infill to 100% rectilinear...

myself, if I was going to do something like this, I would model it with thin layers (1mm or less - multiples of actual layer height I will be using, depending on what I want) and slightly thicker borders (2-3mms) ... but that is me...

Yep I'd be using sli3er. I already have a poster in mind to make into a suncatcher. lol.

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/783/ 2015-07-03T04:06:32Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/100382/#p100382 <![CDATA[Re: 5-10 layer printing/Suncatchers??]]> what are you using for a slicer?

in Slic3r, after slicing, it will tell you how many layers are in an object to be printed... you could then scale the Z accordingly,

as for infill, either increase the top/bottom solid layers or set infill to 100% rectilinear...

myself, if I was going to do something like this, I would model it with thin layers (1mm or less - multiples of actual layer height I will be using, depending on what I want) and slightly thicker borders (2-3mms) ... but that is me...

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/10399/ 2015-07-02T13:55:20Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/100324/#p100324 <![CDATA[5-10 layer printing/Suncatchers??]]> I was thinking it might be interesting if I could compress all Z layers of an object into a very flat space so light can come through it like a sun catcher. Maybe for photo lithoplanes this could work but basically only five to ten layers thick. My question is how do I determine the number of layers of a sliced object so that I may scale it down along the z axis, and also how do I eliminate all infill so it treats all layers like the solid top and bottom?

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/783/ 2015-07-02T13:09:37Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/100321/#p100321