I've showed you a lot of ways to improve your 3d printer use your 3d printer this
week I want to just try something fun something Ive been wanting to play with and
that's the Voronoi effect it's where you can take a solid object and turn it into
a mesh or a netting kind of like like this where you have a bunch of holes and
it forms an object but I want to do with something that was more artistic so my
wife has the statue of the thinker and I wanted to see if I could turn this into
this using the voronoi effect I'll show you
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I don't have a good scanner to convert that statue into a dot STL file and
I've learned that a low poly design actually works a lot better so I found
this one on Thingiverse by user lxo I'm going to use this to apply the voronoi effect and
create my statue now I've seen a lot of people use CAD tools and different
software to create this effect but it turns out there's a site called Vornator.com
which allows you to upload a file and convert it you just go to the choose
file upload the data STL file that I downloaded from Thingiverse and it
uploads it then you have to select STL and then you have a few options here I'm
going to go for less holes and I'm also going to go for thicker I've learned
that this makes it easier to print so once it does that it takes quite a few
minutes to convert you get to spinning wheel' but when it's done it gives you
this design so you can look at it and then decide to download it there's two
versions a simple version and a complex version I'm going to go with the simple
version and it turns out it's pretty good I've brought it into cura version
4.3 I sliced it at a 0.28 layer height using my magic profile at
25% in fill this thing said 14 hours of 50 minutes I was shocked by that it
seems like it would print faster so I wanted to try this out first so I set it
to 50% and this made it a little more reasonable but it takes a while to slice
this thing so there's a lot of detail to it but when it was done it said it would
take 3 hours and 20 minutes so I decided to print this on my Ender 3 and
here's it printing it really leaves a lot of stringing in a lot of spots but
this is the 50% it's kind of sketchy it's not the best print in the world there are
several spots were kind of missed so it told me it really needed to be printed
bigger so I decided to go for it I up sized it to its original size of a
hundred percent 14 hours and 50 minutes and I printed it and it printed and here
it is and it's still not I would say the best print but it's a lot better than
the 50% since bigger seems to be better I decided to print it at 150% but on my
Delta See me CNC Artemis this thing prints fast it's got a bigger
nozzle and it ended up printing in about the same time as it did on me Ender
three and here it is next to the Statue now it's not perfect there's still bad
spots on it because they're spots where it's sags but overall I like this this
is what I imagined the Voronoi effect applied to this statue so I did it I
went from this through a little poly design to this well it's not that great
looking and when I showed my wife she gave me that look
throw that crap out I may not be artistic but this was a lot of fun and I
see practical applications for this like if you want to make a lampshade or a
protection cage around the bulb you use in your workshop it'll protect the bulb
from hitting and not break the glass so I think there's definitely applications
you can use this with I don't know, what do you guys think I think you should at least