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So it is a bit click baity, sure. But how many people really think about anisotropic plies? (cool word, anisotropic, by the way) Folks who have done 3D printin

So it is a bit click baity, sure. But how many people really think about anisotropic plies? (cool word, anisotropic, by the way) Folks who have done 3D printing figure out pretty quickly that the orientation of the print can have a large effect on the various structural properties of the thing printed. I basically spent the first couple of months printing various test objects in different orientations to get a better understanding of this. For that reason, the paper gives a reasonable way to approach the question of "how can I make this stronger?".

rwcarlsen 6y ago
I feel like plywood is a really common thing that a lot of people know to have alternating/anisotropic layers of wood grain
- ChuckMcM 6y ago
  Agreed, that is a great example. That an oriented strand board or OSB.
- JoBrad 6y ago
  Plywood alternates grain patterns at 90° to each other. OSB uses the same technique, but with shredded wood instead of sheets. Neither use the 3D twisting method outlined in the article.