SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — 5-10 layer printing/Suncatchers??

Re: 5-10 layer printing/Suncatchers??

null@example.com (Rocketman) — Fri, 03 Jul 2015 21:28:19 +0000

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.

Re: 5-10 layer printing/Suncatchers??

null@example.com (dubbsd) — Fri, 03 Jul 2015 19:40:24 +0000

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

Re: 5-10 layer printing/Suncatchers??

null@example.com (Rocketman) — Fri, 03 Jul 2015 04:06:32 +0000

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.

Re: 5-10 layer printing/Suncatchers??

null@example.com (heartless) — Thu, 02 Jul 2015 13:55:20 +0000

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...

5-10 layer printing/Suncatchers??

null@example.com (Rocketman) — Thu, 02 Jul 2015 13:09:37 +0000

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?