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so here's the final print so keep watching this video to learn how I made
this 3d print for my wife here on UDoIt. Hi, this is John with UDoIt and
today's video is about printing Valentine's gift for my wife Sherri I
like to bleed in different technologies to make a gift and I found the 3d
printing is one of those really has a shock and awe all pretty quickly so this
flower was designed by Maz and Attero hope I'm saying your name right
was released on February 4th of this year just in time for Valentine's Day
Sean pointed this out to me in our live stream so I figured I'd give us a try
this is printed with redkord filament it's a Purple Haze the bed temperature
was 60 degrees and the extruder temperature was 215 degrees most of this
PLA with a typical print temperature and I had I used 100% infill
at the bottom of the model was a hole and I was able to print a stem which is
what I'm printing now and that stem easily fit onto the bottom of the flower the
color is amazing I'll show you what I did the print this
model FDM which is fused deposition modeling and what it does is this head
extrudes a little bit of plastic at a time and fills in a little gap and keep
still in patterns and connects each successive level by essentially welding
the next little bit too so that's the stem that's being printed right now you
can see that on the screen
and it just finished so let's see if we can remove
well insert the stem into this hole here
I just think it's cool that I was able to print a flower
this is an FDM printer which means that it's fused deposit modeling it takes a little
bit of filament it extrudes out the nozzle there's a nozzle at the very
bottom of the extruder and the plastic is on this roll this is the
filament - the filament goes into the extruder and the extruder heats up this motor here is the
extruder stepper motor it has a gear on the inside that as it turns it grabs on
to the filament and forces the filament into the hot end - the hot end is hot and
as the filament is forced into it goes under pressure it melts and the pressure
forces it through the nozzle the nozzle on this printer has a 0.4mm
(millimeter) nozzle now to give you an idea now to give you an idea how small
that is here is
that's the nozzle now this is a ruby nozzle the end of this nozzle you can't
even see on the camera the end of this nozzle this 0.4mm (millimeters) in
size I would only be able to show it the under a USB microscope 3d printing uses
an extruding process and the extruder
forces filament heated to the temperature which it melts through a
nozzle the nozzle I'm using is a 0.4 millimeter nozzle
and what that means is when it comes out it's approximately 0.4 millimeters
in thickness that little bit of filament that's extrude
a little bit of thermoplastic that is extruded is deposited in a certain
pattern and the pattern is dictated by the model and by the model and what the
computer tells us to do there's a process that we go through to convert
this model into a language at the 3d printer understand so the model of this
flower was created in a file format called sto this STL file is not really
ready to be used by the printer I have to convert it into a language
that the printer will understand so this is the model that I used you can see
this model was made by Maz and Attero
and all you do to to find a file I just typed in flower but I was given a hint
on what flower is because Sean suggested it to me I downloaded a file
and then I import that file into the slicer and I'll show you the slicer here
all right this is the slicer I'm using so I'm going to add the flower
this is the model of the flower
and I can zoom in you know I can rotate it around you can see it's really high
my number of polygons on there and they're the polygons as i zoom in you
can begin to see the polygons
want to change and it's the infill so I set the infill to 100% typically it's
10% or 20% if you want something that's really strong and 100% or if you want a
certain look so I want 100% now because it's model so thin I may not matter but
if I were to scale it it would when I click on this model you'll see that it
measures about two inches by two inches and by an inch and 3/4 tall that's these
measurements down here (bottom right)
place this and then I'm gonna show you a couple things so one is a preview and
what this does is this shows you what the filament looks like
how how the filaments going to be applied
and this is the layer so I could show you what each layer is so I'm gonna pull
this this is the first layer second layer is 0.4 millimeters there
are layers 0.6 and you can see each layer builds up upon
the previous leader
and this is how its created the head moves around and deposits a little bit
of plastic along those lines
and now I'm going to show you another
this is the layers so this is what the computer shows and demonstrates now it's
doing a layer so first it does this skirt here next it applies three
parameters that's what I haven't set to three parameters and what that means is
it does one outline with the head straight in some plastic onto the bed it
does another one and a third one and then it follows a zig zag pattern
filling in oh it also does here for the hole but those three of those and then
it does it follows through with this zig zag pattern and all the way through back
to the end here
and they can move up to the next level I want to show you something they move up
one now look the layers it's a little bit different so it's a little bit
larger
but the layer for the it's going in an opposite
direction and the reason why it goes in the opposite direction is for strength
so they're orthogonal with one another and there's different infill patterns
that you can use and you can see as we go through two
different levels
flower is being created
and eventually eventually gets all the way to the top of the pattern and it's
done and that's how 3d printing works
all right so right now I'm looking at the flower
the very bottom of the flower I'm gonna move up towards the tip of one of the
petals
you focus in
and you see that is the lines
of what was used what was extruded
I want to go down towards the bottom of the flower
there's the bottom
you see it almost has a glass-like look because that was attached to the bed
when it squished the layers down
this is the stem and you see the stem
you can see the little
that's what that's what it looks like
so here's the final print this is the bay's that i printed this is printed
with red cord print ladies I have I had the stem here from a different model
this was printed in Inland black PLA and the flower and the base of the
flower was printed with repkord purple haze as well the model of the vase was
taken from a spiral vase HD a solid model and that was sliced in the slicer
using base mode and printed with one parameter and the flower and the base of
the flower were printed 100% info bed temperature was 60 degrees and extruder
temperature was 215 degrees so if you liked this video give it a thumbs up if
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