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If you are crossing the stair steps orthogonally, or at an offset, I suppose it would be possible to dwell longer when you're over the low point of the stair st
by jiveturkey 7y ago
If you are crossing the stair steps orthogonally, or at an offset, I suppose it would be possible to dwell longer when you're over the low point of the stair step? so your motion across the offset plane would be jerky instead of smooth? thus putting more material in the low part of the stair stepped support layer, and less material on the high parts.
or if you moved the head "with the grain" you can move faster when you're on the peak of a step and slower in the valleys.
or maybe if you can place the planar ridges closely enough, you can always go "with the grain" when you are off-plane, always in the valley, and thus improve flatness. of course this requires an axis of rotation or stepping in {x,y} simultaneously.
- hinkley 7y agoI'm curious how this looks if you print two nonplanar layers at right angles to each other. How much smoother does it get at the second layer?
- mdorazio 7y agoIt shouldn't really be necessary to do this. In normal printing, infill can have gaps of several millimeters and the final surface will still look smooth if it's flat. The plastic essentially bridges the gap before hardening, and over successive layers the imperfections are averaged out. The same thing should happen when moving in both X/Y and Z like this - the first layer will be non-perfect, but if you do 3-4 layers it should end up fairly smooth.
- jiveturkey 7y agoseveral millimeters??? wow.