Hackaday: We’ve used wood filament before, and we hazily remember a Cura plugin that changed temperatures to create wood grain. But unlike [Patrick Gibney], we never thought of printing a faux wood log coaster that looks like it has rings. Check out the video below to see how it works.
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3-D Printing has made tremendous advances over the past 20 years, and it is super exciting to see where it will go next. It began as a novelty for making shapes out of soft plastic, but there has been tremendous growth in the options available, with higher precision, printing in exotic materials like metal and flesh, and new technologies that allow quicker and more efficient printing. One particularly interesting development to me is the ability of some modern printers to be able to switch filaments while printing, and even print in full color! While 3d printing does seem to have been used in almost every market, I wonder if there are some roles that it is being shoved into for which it is not the best solution. I have seen a trend online of people printing large, flat. objects that might be more efficient and cheaper to make by other means. I also think some places are 3D printing at such a scale that it might make more sense to just make molds for injection molding. Finally, I think some questions need to be raised about the amount of plastic we are making, and whether other materials might be better suited for these tasks.
As a person who regularly uses 3d printers for personal and work related reasons I am exited for the potential to explore using more unique filaments to create specific looks. Although I do not believe that 3d printing has any significant applications in the scenic world I am curious to see if this new type of filament would have any potential applications in the props works/ painting wood grain is often something that is very time consuming and if through adjusting setting on cura and 3d printing a prop with a different filament that is not longer necessary 3d printers will have a cause to be even more useful in our field. I wonder if using filament instead of raw wood would make elements printed lighter? I also hope that using filament made out of sawdust which is already a scrap product of the lumber industry would allow less old growth trees to be cut down in order to make use of their grain in a theatrical world.
I love 3d printing although I have to admit a lot of it goes above my head. I have printed a lot in the past and I know a bit about the way in which printers and slicers work but something like this definitely goes above my head. I’ve tried printing with wood filament before and it sort of worked. The print was quite brittle and broke apart in some places. I really like how in this print they use the property of the wood itself to impact the print. They heat up the filament more than the recommended amount to get the wood to burn and turn darker. I think that is definitely dangerous and I’m curious as to how it impacts the print and the printer itself. I really like the look of the square logs. I can imagine a lot of cool ways to utilize these in designs. They produce a sort of uncanny valley effect that I quite like. I also like that in these prints the movement of the nozzle definitely impacts the prints.
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