On 4/22/23, Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many <gmkarl@gmail.com> wrote:
simple 3d printer ideas that surprisingly may stimulate inhibition in me for innovation:
- you could possibly extrude in a pattern such that the filament doesn’t bind to the layer below it, making support that vacuums or blows away with an arbitrary extruder and filament. expecting this to be slower from waiting for the filament to harden before letting it come in contact with the layer below.
could be existing paper or software on trying something like it somewhere, but maybe not since it addresses low-end devices
idea: you could break the problem into two parts: the bottom surface of the support material, and the top surface. on the bottom you could possibly use very little material and expand going up. like the idea of a table with sharp cones for legs. on the top you could possibly fill out some surface all at once, then harden it all at once before laying on top of it. this simplification leaves out some further concerns around adhering. i’m not experienced with how extruding functions. to me the relevant challenging part that remains is controlling adherance of a new flat layer to an existing cold layer. i suspect this to be a solved problem given the popular challenge of bed adherance. given the novelty of the idea i expect there to be a further problem i have not thought of, but it looks implementable now. if there isn’t a further problem, i would still have experiments and further troubleshooting-style innovation to go through if i were to try to implement it, to compensate for my personal errors and my lack of experience here.