RESOLVED: Printing vase with spiral mode

[Edmond Dyogi @eddyogi My Robox is a Green Kickstarter Early Bird]

Hello.

Is is there a way to print with a single continuous spiral mode for something like a vase? If anyone is familiar with Simplify3D, they call is their vase mode.

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[Steve N @discosteve My Robox is a Blue Commercial Version]

I think so - I have seen an OpenScad model that can generate this kind of thing

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[Jack @jack-strong My Robox is a Green Kickstarter Limited Edition]

not in AM,yet

[click @click My Robox is a Green Kickstarter Limited Edition]

Not entirely true. You can (should be able to!) produce GCode and use AM to pass it to printer. There isn’t much of ‘extra’ gcode at the beginning (or end) and I think you can find them, now with new AM, in <app dir>/CEL/Common/Macros.

 

 

[Steve N @discosteve My Robox is a Blue Commercial Version]

I withdraw my comment now I know what Vase Mode is - not sure what you gain from it though

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[Andy S @andylion My Robox is a Blue Commercial Version]

It also avoids the little gaps, bulges and smeared lines that can happen when the nozzle starts, stops and moves around a print between starting and stopping places, so it makes a lot of sense to do it that way for objects that form one continuous perimeter in the first place.

[Edmond Dyogi @eddyogi My Robox is a Green Kickstarter Early Bird]

@andylion That is exactly what I was looking for, one continuous perimeter so no transitions from one layer to another. I found a youtube video apparently made my Robox about a spiral print.

My question is how did they do it?

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[Rob @bespokeproductdesign]

Yes the obvious benefit is you don’t get any artefacts at the start and end of each path, particularly noticeable if your using t-glaze or similar transparent fillaments.

If you edit the print profile directly C:\Users\user\Documents\CEL Robox\PrintProfiles

change “spiralPrint” : false to true

Tried it a loooong time ago in beta but couldn’t get it to work.

I’d be interested to know if it works now . . . . .my printer is still down so can’t try it.

 

 

[Edmond Dyogi @eddyogi My Robox is a Green Kickstarter Early Bird]

I looked for spiralPrint in the printprofiles, but it has now changed to spiral_vase = 0. Is that a boolean 0 or 1? So I should change it to “spiral_vase = 1”? That means I will have to change it back to 0 after every vase print, right?

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[Edmond Dyogi @eddyogi My Robox is a Green Kickstarter Early Bird]

Sorry, I was looking at the wrong print profiles directory! I should have checked the print profiles in “…\Documents\CEL Robox\PrintProfiles\”

I found the “spiralPrint” : false entry

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[Edmond Dyogi @eddyogi My Robox is a Green Kickstarter Early Bird]

I just tried it, I think there’s a major bug, the nozzle went up too high after the first layer and then air printed. Plus there was suddenly an extrusion error! I had to cancel it immediately.

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[click @click My Robox is a Green Kickstarter Limited Edition]

@eddyogi but what about feeding gcode directly to AM? AM has send gcode to printer option somewhere.

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