Jorge Loredo – G-code

The first shape I rendered with G-code was this really cool circular pattern below. I achieved it by simply adding a CircleDeviation() function to my turtle where it would draw a circle on each side of the polygon every layer. Although the shape seemed very nice, I figured it wasn’t viable to print it since the turtle would just smash into the shape while printing since the paths of the circles intersect.

Here is the function that I added to my python code.

My second stage was messing with my code and simply changing the size of the circles so they wouldn’t intersect and the turtle could print freely.

Here is a picture with the code with the new size

After that, I made the variables input sliders so I could easily mess with my shape:

The next step was adding an offset in the layers that would actually print the CircleDeviation() in order to create a cool spider web effect. I did that by using mod for assigning a bool when calling my polygon function.

I also made the value of whatever we were using mod for the layer gap with, an input slider. Which made it easier to experiment with different gaps for every n layer.

The last change that I did was adding an input for decreasing the circle deviation size in order to create a tree/pyramid effect for my shape:

I made it an input slider as well in order to mess with it easily:

Here are the images of the result, which is the third and final shape I chose to print:

For my first 3D print, my shape was smaller than I thought, which happened because I didn’t think about the units properly when assigning the size variables to my code. The good thing is that it printed properly:

The second shape was the proper size, and it had a different layer gap, which made the circle deviations print in a different way:

The third print was the pyramidal one, it had a different layer gap and it decreased the size of the circles with each iteration: