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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nFor my first artifact I wanted to see how well my printer could handle a little bit of over hang and printing thin circles of filament on top of each other with no supports and no infill. For this print I just created a circle and then each iteration of the loop I move the next layer to the side by a distance of extrude_width\/4. I created the back and forth motion with a simple if statement that moves the circle in the other direction when a certain height is reached. This print is the least impressive of the 3 but I still feel that it is an interesting print that I slightly doubted would properly print. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For my second print I wanted to push my idea from my first print further. This time I created a tornado looking object by increasing the size of the circle as it goes up and instead of a back and forth motion I wanted it to spiral up. I created the small platform to prove that it printed starting with a smaller circle and ending with a larger one. To create the spiral pattern I just turned the turtle to the left by 1 degree for every new layer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My first 2 artifacts printed relatively well. To my surprise I did not have many issues with these prints and most of my problems came from my third print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For my third print I did know what I wanted to create before writing the code. I recently went to a butterfly sanctuary in Tempe, Arizona and this was a big inspiration for this third print. I wanted to print a butterfly and implement the non-planar movement and the midair filament in the wings of the butterfly. The body of the butterfly I wanted to keep simple so I did a square spiral so I could focus making the wings properly without wrecking my printer. The wings are ellipses that I increase in size and are angled by using t.roll(-10). One of the major issues I had making the wings was when I angled them, they would clip through the body which if I had tried printing that may have really messed up my nozzle. So I implemented a take-off method within the wings creation that would print the ellipse flat until it reached the end of the body and then it would grow at an angle. I also created a landing method which detected when the wing was getting closer to the body of the butterfly and when it was close to the proper Z height and began to pitch and roll the turtle so it would “land” on the back of the butterfly without piercing it. Another issue I had was actually getting the filament to print midair. I eventually settle on an extrude rate of 0.0475, a nozzle speed of 500 mm\/min and I also pointed one of my plug in fans at the print bed to help it cool a little faster. I am very proud of the final product and even though it was a little stressful working with the wings I had a lot of fun with this project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prints and Discussion For this project I really wanted to experiment with what I can get away with now that I did not have to slice my objects before printing them. I had a lot of fun with this project and I really enjoyed the process of midair filament. 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<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\nCura G-Code Images<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\nGrassHopper Code<\/h2>\n\n\n\n