Finally got my enclosure for my Prusa i3 Mk2 sorted and installed.

Finally got my enclosure for my Prusa i3 Mk2 sorted and installed. Now time to finally start having fun with it. I decided to try and combine my love of photoshop and 3d printing. I took a couple of my photoshop creations and printed them as lithophanes. Happy with the results so thought i’d share. (be kind with any comments new to 3d printing. :wink: ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7jjpCe0sig&t=34s

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amazing result - what nozzle and layer did you use? You can try to position it diagonal so both axis work together - this could improve the result or you will get interferences - but worth a try.
(seems the links for your website and FB didn’t work)

@Ulrich_Baer Thanks, I used a 0.4mm nozzle with 0.1 layers and 100% infill.

Thanks for giving me the heads up on my links. Now fixed it appears youtube truncated them and cut the full addresses. All should be working now.

It never crossed my mind to print these vertically. Have you tried printing one flat on the bed, and if so, how did the quality compare? I printed mine flat and I was quite happy with the results - but it was a ton of retractions.

@John_Roth vertical you have a resolution of layer height and nozzle the other direction while the depth is ~10µm- horizontal it is your nozzle diameter in both and the depth is the layerhight (100µm). While you can have 90° horizontal - this creates an overhang when printing vertical (you can circumvent that by using a gausianblure to minimize hard contrast)

@John_Roth The second picture of the face is printed flat on the bed. I quite like the result but you obviously can see the top layer lines when no light is is cast through it but when cast through the top layer lines in my opinion ain’t too bad. You need to weigh print time into it as well. The face took around 3 hours flat on the bed whereas the vertical print took 9 hours.