Flexible Tubing - 1/4
Description
Feel free to post up modifications, as this is tweaked to the fraction of a millimeter for my specific machine to be exactly as tight as I wanted them to be.
Note: I break a few here and there when putting them together. This is to be expected, and possibly thickening up the "neck" would fix this. I print 3 x 2 using multiply so this isn't a huge deal to break one every now and then.
EDIT: I uploaded all three resolutions. The highest is what made the links in the picture, but you may have similar luck with the other two resolutions. Thanks!
Instructions
Hope you enjoy!
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I'm not having any luck with this. I printed at 100% fill and .3mm layer height. The inside and outside walls are just 1 or 2 layers thick with the middle not filled in despite putting in 100% fill. Then when I tried to fit them together, they don't fit at all, even after sanding aggressively. If I force it, they just buckle. Is there a trick to this? Should it be scaled up or something?
As I mentioned in the comment below, I'm printing them at .13 layer height. This is definitely not designed to be used with .3
I'd say .2 is your highest to try. You can surely scale them up. No harm in that. You'd just get more flow and less compression.
If someone wants to re-design this in a parametric app, that might help others troubleshoot. I could possible save out the curve used to revolve the surface.
Hi
Nice design. In relation to your question about G-Code size, I'm not sure but I noticed the stl file is big for a small object and looking at it, it has a very high resolution. This resolution is much higher than our printers are capable of printing at anyway, so perhaps if you made your curves with less sides it may reduce your G-Code size. Worth a try. Let us know if you experiment with it.
Good luck.
Owen :-D
Im printing at .13 layer height and noticed when i printed this with one less smooth level it had really inconsistent fitment. I can upload two levels less resolution if anyone wants. This is modeled in 3dsmax with two levels of turbosmooth. Thanks for the info though. :)
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I'm going to try to use this to make some helping hands for electronics work... thanks!