I recently uploaded my remix Gyro Cube to Thingiverse! That’s up at http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1722631 It includes three files:
- A “Print in Place” version where all the spheres print in position and work as soon as you remove support material.
- A “Snap in Place” version where all the spheres print directly on the bed and you snap them into position after printing.
- All the OpenSCAD code for future remixes.
My version is a remix of smorloc’s Big Nippled Parametric Gyro Cube (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:40760) which in turn is a remix of whosawhatsis’s Parametric Gyro Cube (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:19304). A remix of a remix!This video hits on a bunch of things:
1) Using Simplify3D’s Mesh-Separate Connected Surfaces to preview and get a feel for the connections of the existing Gyro Cube models.
- My modifications to the Big Nippled Gyro Cube , my thought process behind my new connections, and printing the spheres in place.
- Using Simplify3D’s Cross Section View to determine good stopping points for embedding the spheres within each other and
using Multiple Processes to achieve a five color Gyro Cube on my single extruder machine. - Since my family is completely in love with Pokémon Go, I also go over using Multiple Processes and the Print-in-Place version of in Simplify3D to make a Pokeball Gyro Cube.
- Passing on a tip from TimeFramed from the Big Thick Gyro Cube V2 (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:165424) and incorporating a vertical lift to my retractions.
Custom GCode Scripts for Embedded Spheres
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Ending
G91; relative mode
G1 Z100; lift 100mm
Starting
G90; absolute mode
Processes for Embedded Spheres
(From smallest to largest)
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Sphere 1
-One process for the whole thing
Sphere 2
-0 – 40 mms
-Insert Sphere 1
-40mms on
Sphere 3
-0 – 50 mms
-Insert Sphere 2
-50mms on
Sphere 4
-0 – 60 mms
-Insert Sphere 3
-60mms on
Sphere 5
– 0 – 71 mms
– Insert Sphere 4
– 71 mms on
Custom GCode Scripts for Pokémon Go
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(When starting I add calls to purge the nozzle due to color changes)
Ending
G91; relative mode
G1 Z100; lift 100mm
Starting
G90 ; absolute mode
G92 E0 ; zero extruder
G1 E25 F225 ; purge nozzle
G92 E0 ; zero extruder
Processes for Pokémon Go
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– 0 – 35mm – White
– 35mm – 45mm – Black
– 45mm – 80mm – Red