Robo on Steroids.

I installed a .8 nozzle today that I got from Printed Solid, I have been messing around with it all day, check out the video, watch the extruder spinning, this two layer piece used up almost 8 meters of filament. I will post pictures as soon I finish this little project.

 

Didn't know it could move that fast. Wow.

 

So I had fun messing with the .8 nozzle today, made lights for street lights except for yellow, I did one set at 2 layers then a set at 1 layer, very flexible and translucent. Then I make this display holder, I only have a few on there now but there will end up being at least 10 rings. The rings are recycled clutch plate spacers for a transmission and the steel bar is from lowes a 6.25 mm is what it measures. Printing at a layer height @.6 things print really fast, you do see some cosmetic issues, but most of those can be tweaked in the software, overall it was a good day.

 

Think I'm ordering a .1 nozzle, so I can do the Robo Nano model..lol

 

Here is a bowl that took only 2 hours using a .8 nozzle @.6 layer height in spiral mode.

 

Here is my 3d traffic light, or maybe a stand to put the Mini Robo. I will post how to make these lenses, it is a fluke the way I found out how to do these.

 

That's epic man. Really cool stuff

 

My tallest print so far, going have to figure our something new for the fans though, cant go much higher.

 

Sorry for the slight tangent, but I wanted to print this bowl, but both mattercontrol and simplify3d want to create two outlines instead of the one I see in your picture. Do you have the STL that you used?

Thanks,
Jim

 

Hey Jim, You must select spiral vase to print this with one perimeter.

 

Or you can just set it to only do 1 perimeter.

 

You could but with spiral its is a non-stop extrusion so you get the smoothest finish, no lines.

 

Random layer start spot will fix that too. Is slic3r the only one with the vase option?

 

Random layer will not fix it it will just move it randomly around the perimeter and that looks real ugly at .6 layer height, I have some in front of me that I have made either way and Vase is the only option for a smooth layer finish.
They all support vase, or spiral, not sure what S3d uses but sure it is similar.

 

Both MatterControl and Simplify3D support the vase option. In MatterControl it's called "Spiral Vase" under advanced controls, Print / Layers/Perimeters. In S3D, it is under the Layer properties for a process, labeled as "Single outline corkscrew printing mode (vase mode)".

I think the problem is with the STL file itself. When I slice it in S3D with vase mode, It wants to do two walls. I've attached a screenshot to illustrate.

 

I pulled in gcode exported from MatterControl, and it's nearly identical.

 

Can you send me a link to the bowl. the one I printed is a vase so not sure we are talking about the same part. You can just PM the info.

Thanks

 

My Street Light.
I have been wanting to do this for awhile, these are recycled clutch plates from a transmission, welded a bar on the back for mounting. The plates that originally started this thread above is what I used for the lights.