Gyroid infill without perimeters
I'm visiting my parents, and my father showed me a small lamp that needs a new lampshade. I thought of printing one as a gift for him, using just a gyroid infill pattern with no perimeters, printed with a semi-translucent filament.
The problem is, PrusaSlicer adds perimeters to bits and pieces of any infill pattern, even if you set perimeters to zero.
I've seen others manage to print an infill pattern by itself. Is this capability available in other slicers?
RE: Gyroid infill without perimeters
You may try the https://github.com/prusa3d/PrusaSlicer/releases/tag/version_2.3.0-beta2
and reduce infill anchoring length using the new infill anchoring parameters (only available in advanced / expert mode)
RE: Gyroid infill without perimeters
Couple of other thoughts:
Does it have to be gyroid? You may have more luck with other infill patterns.
Can you flip the model on its side? In my hands, I've been more successful printing without top and bottom layer than without perimeters.
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RE: Gyroid infill without perimeters
Sorry to say, but Cura...
Just remove the wall thickness, the top and bottom layers.
RE: Gyroid infill without perimeters
Gyroid May not be a good choice...
I left some top and bottom layers to leave neat edges and somewhere to mount the light fitting
this is in Prusa Slicer 2.3.0 beta1
I used a low infill ratio so the image would be clearer
a higher infill ratio will join more cells together...
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RE: Gyroid infill without perimeters
3d Honeycomb has more interconnects
2D (BASIC) Honeycomb may be easier to print!
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RE: Gyroid infill without perimeters
Thanks everyone. PrusaSlicer 2.2 certainly won't do it. I didn't know there was a 2.3 beta available. I've been meaning to check out Cura too, but had never gotten around to it because up until now, PrusaSlicer has done whatever I needed.
I'll experiment with different infill patterns. I know gyroid has problems with overhanging layers at low densities. Hex or cubic might work nicely too.
My idea is to have a rather thick lampshade with a space hollowed out that rests on top of the LED bulb. It's a very small bedside lamp. The LED won't get too hot, but still probably too warm for PLA. Printing in natural PETG would look nice, I think.
Ideally I would be figuring out how to generate a gyroid surface of any arbitrary thickness in OpenSCAD, and then I could rotate and orient the pattern as I please. But after dabbling with the deceptively simple gyroid formula, I concluded that would be a very heavy lift.
RE: Gyroid infill without perimeters
I have a Solidworks model of gyroid and am glad to send it to you. Then you can mirror, extrude cut, scale, etc. to get your lampshade.
Let me know the file extension.
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RE: Gyroid infill without perimeters
Have you looked for a gyroid on grabcad.com?
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RE: Gyroid infill without perimeters
The solution is to set the maximum lenghth of the infill anchor to a low value.
RE: Gyroid infill without perimeters
The solution is to set the maximum lenghth of the infill anchor to a low value.
Yes, that feature became available in PrusaSlicer after I posted my initial thread.
In the meantime, I have come up with a better gyroid based on triangle waves instead of sine waves. It's an interesting faceted surface, and would be ideal for 3D printing because it eliminates the horizontal slope at the saddle point of the regular gyroid. In fact, I verified that if this gyroid is stretched 2X in the Z direction, all surfaces conform to the 45° rule.
My biggest problem is, in spite of weeks of hard work, I just cannot figure out how to modify the gyroid infill in PrusaSlicer to use this. PrusaSlicer generates some weird gaps when I try it.