Originally shared by Andrew Hodel Someone make a floating Benchy.

Andrew_Hodel · November 25, 2015, 9:13pm

Originally shared by Andrew Hodel

Someone make a floating Benchy.

foosel · November 25, 2015, 9:36pm

It is floating alright. Which side was supposed to be up was missing from the specification, so the engineering team had to make a choice. Classic mistake in requirements engineering…

Andrew_Hodel · November 25, 2015, 10:00pm

- YouTube @foosel they must have made the same decision.

Jules_Hoehn · November 25, 2015, 10:08pm

Lol. Ya the high center of gravity and lack of balast makes poor benchy float funny. Even my monster benchy floats on its side. Anyone know of a slicer that lets you do different Infill densities for the same part? Make butom 100% infill and top 20%? That would be pretty sick!

Nils_Hesse · November 25, 2015, 10:13pm

@Jules_Hoehn Slic3r can do that via a feature they call “modifier meshes”. have a look at http://slic3r.org/blog/modifier-meshes for a description

Jules_Hoehn · November 25, 2015, 10:16pm

Ooooh thanks @Nils_Hesse ! I shall experiment with this feature this weekend. Might help me with a few other projects I’m working on too!

Ivan_Hoe · November 26, 2015, 12:19am

Thanks for sharing, people : )
Learnt something strikingly new today.

Tim_Visible · November 26, 2015, 5:24pm

I’ve often wanted a feature just like those modifier meshes. I’d prefer it built into the slicer vs. importing a model to define a region, but that’s a great start. Might finally try slic3r.