Showing posts with label FDM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FDM. Show all posts
Sunday, 16 March 2008

Filling in

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I have been experimenting with various infill patterns. Here is a 40 x 10mm block made with 0.5mm filament at 50% fill: - For simplicity I ...
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Friday, 28 December 2007

To raft or not to raft?

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When extruding HDPE onto foam board a raft needs to be laid down first to increase the anchorage at the corners to reduce curling. It become...
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Thursday, 27 December 2007

Cutting corners

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When making solid blocks with 0.5mm HDPE filament I noticed that the corners are not very accurate. The right hand edge of the 20mm cube bel...
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Wednesday, 26 December 2007

Warped

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Having got an idea of the HDPE warping for thin walled open boxes, I decided to start investigating solid shapes. I made a solid block 40 x ...
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Sunday, 16 December 2007

Chopping up chopping boards

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Up until now I have been extruding HDPE onto foam board because it was the only thing that it sticks to well enough. However, it has a coupl...
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Tuesday, 24 April 2007

My PolyMorph has morphed!

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I now have HydraRaptor controlled by a Python script running on my PC. I decided to test its circle drawing ability in preparation for usin...
Saturday, 31 March 2007

Chicken and Egg

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The problem with making machines that make themselves is how to make the first one! A bootstrap machine has to be made by hand first. This h...
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