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Design fault or low quality printing

NH
nop head
Sun, Mar 13, 2022 6:21 PM

Sorry I missed a sentence. I found the formula by printing a grid of holes
that had different sizes on one axis and different $fn on the other axis.
$fn can always be lower than the formula but when higher the holes start to
shrink because the vertices are too close for the tightness of the corner.

If I want the hole to look round and touch a cylinder in many places I set
the twist parameter to 2. The alternates the vertices but also offsets them
a bit more so they spirale around the hole. Alternating them gives a good
connection to the infill and the spiral makes it look round.

Sorry I missed a sentence. I found the formula by printing a grid of holes that had different sizes on one axis and different $fn on the other axis. $fn can always be lower than the formula but when higher the holes start to shrink because the vertices are too close for the tightness of the corner. If I want the hole to look round and touch a cylinder in many places I set the twist parameter to 2. The alternates the vertices but also offsets them a bit more so they spirale around the hole. Alternating them gives a good connection to the infill and the spiral makes it look round.