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by mgunlogson 3 days ago
No, unfortunately. I've printed a ton of objects but nothing clean enough to be interesting.

The top of cells always melt as I'm using the same material for injection and the rest of the print. Someone with a dual nozzle printer could try something like PLA injection in a polycarbonate part. I added support but don't have a printer capable of that.

It's also possible that different print settings would work. I'm releasing the features to the community as I've run out of patience with doing a hundred hours of test prints.

We need to crowd test the best settings and nozzles, materials, etc to make this work well

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I’m surprised you bothered writing software instead of writing some G code by hand for testing
Because that's not accessible.

IMO the reason other efforts to achieve similar Z reinforcement have gone nowhere is because it was one guy fiddling with G-Code. All the big innovations in 3DP have been community projects. Now anyone can download my binaries and try it.

I'm personally very convinced this will work. That's why I did it. We just need to figure out the right settings. Maybe use a different material for injection or coat the nozzle in something.

We'll see. There's a long history of crazy ideas and cold receptions. We even have famous examples from this site https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Either I'll end up wrong, and this will fade into obscurity. Or it will turn out I was right and a lot of people will read this comment someday.

when you have claude everything looks like a software problem :)