While I do agree with some of what you said, finding the best solution does not have to be that difficult. I'm afraid I believe we'll all need to rely on the current way of doing things.practise and experience!Ĭan you tell I'm not in to this Pokémon thing? For a one degree resolution make that over 46 million slicing runs! The same would go for determining the optimum position for speed.and how on earth can the software determine the quality of the print? With a rotational resolution of 10 degrees, the slicer would have to do 36 x 36 x 36 slicing exercises to determine the one position that would use least filament.that's 46,656 goes at slicing. Take how to determine the least amount of filament based on rotational position.

if you like this idea, send me a free t-shirt, men's medium/large)ĭkightley wrote:This sounds initially as it might be a good idea.but in my opinion impossible to code into the software. The reason this would be great is because it would help inexperienced people to get good results and be able to compute various options faster than experienced people. You could use the 'auto-support' parameters to rotate the model and calculate optimum rotation angles for least filament, 'speed' options to determine fastest print rotation and 'layer' options to determine best quality rotation. I bet some solution would be not-so-obvious, like 75 degrees from the horizontal. Simpl圓D would take existing print parameters and give you multiple options. I envision this like a 'driving planner' - Three choices available - fastest, shortest, best gas mileage, for example.

And I came back to an interesting situation: when printing half a sphere, which is the best orientation?Ī) open side down - most amount of support needed, top part of sphere suffers from layer granularity, that is, small curves relative to the bed over a large model creates a 'step'ī) open side up - less support needed (significantly less then a) still has layer granularityĬ) open side horizontal - ? Probably the best, but takes the longest amount of time.Īlthough this is just a general case, it would be nice to handle much more complex model. So, with all this Pokémon Go craze, I decided to print out a Pokeball.

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