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Parametric multiboard tile
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effort to add cutout options? #3

Open Unostot opened 4 months ago

Unostot commented 4 months ago

Hi,

thanks for this nice scad file, I've used it for tile generation because blender does not work that well on my laptop :)

Since I did not yet look through the code, how exactly the generation works, perhaps here as a pre-question: What do you think how difficult it is, to remove some sections in the generated board? Do you add each "hole" by its own in a loop or something?

If I would do a simple difference or intersection, I think I would not get nice removed sections but instead have hard cuts.

I'm thinking more of a way like the blender file works (and perhaps better, too). Somehow define a area which needs to be clear of everything, and generate the tile only around this area... With the blender version you need to be careful to catch the centers of the holes which need to be removed...so you can not simply make a cube of the exact size, which needs to be free, since then some holes would linger in :)

Like I said, not looked through how exactly you generate it. Depending on this, it could be relativly easy or really difficult... So right now its just a brainstorming question :)

Greetings, Uno

P.S. I've modified my copy of the scad file for stack generation and intermediate layers (to print e.g. with PETG and PLA...eighter with separation layer or alternating board material). Nice pre work from you, thanks again for making multiboard available in the OpenSCAD world :)

christopher-lambe commented 4 months ago

Hi Uno, Can you please share the stacked with PETG seperation layer code? My Bambu Lab P1S with AMS is on order and this would be perfect for me printing large quantities of multiboard. The holes with nice edges would be a great addition. Cheers, Chris

Unostot commented 3 months ago

Hi Uno, Can you please share the stacked with PETG seperation layer code? My Bambu Lab P1S with AMS is on order and this would be perfect for me printing large quantities of multiboard. The holes with nice edges would be a great addition. Cheers, Chris

I' just forked and added my changes...will issue a pull request later, I think...

If an AMS or MMU is good for printing like this, I have no idea...I think it depends on how good the cleaning works. Otherwise you would have residue of PETG or PLA which might impact strength of the tiles I print on a toolchanger so this is no issue :)

If you print stacks with my additons, may I ask you: Please show your support to KeepMaking by becoming a supporter there, so they can continue there work on the system.

Greetings, Uno