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9. Special Geometries

Joan Horvath1  and Rich Cameron1
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Nonscriptum LLC, Pasadena, CA, USA
 

Not every print is equally hard to create. There are a few special cases that require particular setups. These prints involve extremes in one physical property or another—hollow, or completely solid, or thin, or otherwise a shape that pushes the envelope of filament printing. On the other hand, sometimes a print that has an “obvious” straightforward way to print it can benefit from one of the processes in this chapter.

Vase Prints

3D prints take a long time to complete. One way to speed things up is to vase print it, if the geometry and ...

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