Chainmail experiment #1
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There Are More Elegant Chain Mail Alternatives On Here But This Is My Own Experiment With Alternately Interlocked Donuts In A Hexagonal Structure. I'Ve Minimised The Polygon Count But It'S Still A Very Greedy Beast When It'S Slicing Time. I Left My Old Intel Atom Processor Based Box Slicing Late Evening And Found The Chain Mail Section Completing On My Printer In The Morning. Slicing Took About 7 Hours, Printing Just An Hour And A Quarter. I Printed At 0.4Mm Layer Height With A 0.45Mm Nozzle And The Extruder Set To 193 Degrees. I'M Still Refining Techniques, I'Ve Noticed That Bringing Temperature Down A Lot Helps When Printing Out Into Space And Extra Thin Layers Don'T Turn Corners Out In Unsupported Space As Well As Thicker Layers Do. If I Print This Varian Again I'D Go For 0.3Mm Layers And Drop The Temperature A Couple Of Degrees Lower. This First Design Worked, Printed To Completion But Then I Spent Most Of An Hour Carefully Working The Links Free From Each Other. If Your Printer Has A Built In Support System It Would Of Course Be Much Cleaner.
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