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Brim Height addition #1341

Open smartroad opened 11 years ago

smartroad commented 11 years ago

Hi!

I have been thinking about making cookie cutters and had an idea about how Slic3r could make it easier with a simple addition.

A cookie cutter is very similar to making a vase. The model can be a simple solid, it has no infill or top layer and but also doesn't need a bottom layer. The main exception is that it needs a 'flange'. The Brim feature offers that but only 1 layer, could it be made to use additional layers to give the flange more strength. Then the Spiral Vase option would be used to finish it off.

Just a thought for a simple feature to increase the repertoire of Slic3r

lordofhyphens commented 8 years ago

This has been asked several times, and this particular case is an abuse of the brim design (and makes for a poor structure). Could add a raft to it with 0 pattern spacing and 0 interface spacing. Or add the flange to the model and force bottom layers onto the print. Drill a couple holes into the bottom to give you the removal points you'd want.

Someone wanting to actually implement this can probably bodge parts of make_skirt into make_brim. https://github.com/alexrj/Slic3r/blob/master/lib/Slic3r/Print.pm#L313. I'd defer accepting the PR to @alexrj though, and I'd call it make_flange instead.