Temporary Rotation: Designer or Slicer?
There's no need for "reinventing the wheel as to what orientation
works". Just save your gcode files. Storage is cheap.
On 8/18/2024 12:44 PM, Rogier Wolff wrote:
And my policy is that if I want to print it again, I don't want to be
"reinventing the wheel" as to what orentation works. I also want to
DOCUMENT for later-me how it should be printed. So I like to do it in
openscad.
Of course in 95 % of cases, it'll be blatantly obvious how to print
it. But just to be save I like to document it in a permanent file.
(I don't use the "save this project" feature in the slicer).
Roger.
On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 07:32:51AM -0400, Douglas Miller via Discuss wrote:
I've never observed any difference in the quality of the printed model. My
practice is to design an object in OpenSCAD using whatever orientation is
simplest to model, then use the slicer (if needed) to rotate it into optimum
orientation for printing.
On 8/17/2024 1:05 PM, Nathan Sokalski wrote:
There are many cases in which I need to rotate one of my models by 90°
or 180° before printing (to improve or avoid the need for supports).
This is very easy to do in OpenSCAD and most slicers (in my case Cura),
my question is not about how to do it, but about whether it is better to
do it in OpenSCAD or the slicer. Even though the result SHOULD be the
same, there is always the possibility of certain curves or combinations
of shapes being rendered slightly differently, even if it is visually
the same onscreen. Is one ever better than the other?
Nathan Sokalski
njsokalski@hotmail.com
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On 8/18/2024 11:30 AM, Douglas Miller via Discuss wrote:
There's no need for "reinventing the wheel as to what orientation
works". Just save your gcode files. Storage is cheap.
Saving your gcode files lets you print exactly the same model again on
exactly the same printer with exactly the same filament.
But if you want to slightly modify the model and print it again, or on a
different printer, or...
In reality, it doesn't matter how you start off doing it, since after a
while, you realise you needed to do something else. ('a while' being a
time period between, maybe, five minutes and fifty years). Saving it is
easy, finding it again is the tricky bit.
On 18/08/2024 23:35, Jordan Brown via Discuss wrote:
On 8/18/2024 11:30 AM, Douglas Miller via Discuss wrote:
There's no need for "reinventing the wheel as to what orientation
works". Just save your gcode files. Storage is cheap.
Saving your gcode files lets you print exactly the same model again on
exactly the same printer with exactly the same filament.
But if you want to slightly modify the model and print it again, or on
a different printer, or...
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On 8/19/24 05:59, Raymond West via Discuss wrote:
In reality, it doesn't matter how you start off doing it, since after a
while, you realise you needed to do something else. ('a while' being a
time period between, maybe, five minutes and fifty years). Saving it is
easy, finding it again is the tricky bit.
On 18/08/2024 23:35, Jordan Brown via Discuss wrote:
On 8/18/2024 11:30 AM, Douglas Miller via Discuss wrote:
There's no need for "reinventing the wheel as to what orientation
works". Just save your gcode files. Storage is cheap.
Saving your gcode files lets you print exactly the same model again on
exactly the same printer with exactly the same filament.
But if you want to slightly modify the model and print it again, or on
a different printer, or...
Ain't that the truth, Ray. Finding it again since I might have 40
modules in a given file (write a module, often with 2 or 3 arguments in
the call to make it more universal, like a screw, but if I need 4 in a
fixed pattern, that is yet another module) I tend to save the same file
under 20 names just so I know that "tronxy400_carriage_bottom.scad is
the latest version. Someday I'll gt organized. Someday...
Take care, etc all.
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