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✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

catherine: routinely gets a panic attack if someone mentions a 3d printer issue in the vicinity
catherine's headmate, who probably made a pact with the Mechanical Devil: converts her 3d printer to print with two materials instead of one, for like $30 worth of parts, in two days, having designed it from scratch. what the hell

close-up of a creality 3d printer toolhead. alongside creality's black parts (the stock ones are all black) there are two 3d printed white parts attached. one of the parts has a second, red, filament tube enter into it. a variety of objects lie underneath
close-up of two objects from the previous shot. they are two white bricks with slots and cutouts at odd angles, with a conic section visible on each. underneath there is a piece of paper saying "0 degrees + 20 degrees join"
a very simple 3d printed object, clearly intended as a test. it is a cylinder that is printed in three colors: orange, white, orange again. the layers are very smooth and incredibly uniform, and the z-step seam is small and smooth. the object looks appealing. the hand that is holding the object has a thumb bandaged
21 May 2023 at 0:48 | Open on mastodon.social
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✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

this system uses two extruders: one direct drive (stock) and one bowden (bolted to the side). this is apparently important for something

doesn't blob on tool change, doesn't jam too often, uses a complicated system of gcode macros to track the state of material multiplexing unit so that the slicer can issue a single command and have it ready (other than purging), requires only a few screws and a pneumatic fitting to assemble

21 May 2023 at 1:02 | Open on mastodon.social
✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

check out this lighthouse she made!!!

(for some reason PrusaSlicer divides by zero if she tries to make a normal multi-material object, and a lighthouse was the obvious candidate for manually inserting material switches between layers)

a palm-sized 3d printed lighthouse (very basic, just the overall shape and color without any detail), still on the build plate. it is white with three wide orange stripes; very lighthousey. the object looks completely seamless
close-up of the middle part of the lighthouse. layers are visible. they are completely uniform and the color change is seamless. so smooth you kind of want to taste it
21 May 2023 at 1:58 | Open on mastodon.social
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