[bartvk]

From the Guidelines (link at bottom of each page): "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work".

Personally, I think it's an interesting experiment. If my prints break, it's at the layer lines. This work may be a stepping stone, an easy way to reinforce prints.

[alterom]

>Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work".

That's the thing about this idea. It doesn't work.

The title is misleading too. No actual 3D prints have been reinforced.

If the title said "an idea", making it clear that is not anything that has ever worked for anyone yet, it'd be a different matter.

>If my prints break, it's at the layer lines

Then print with 100% infill.

>This work may be a stepping stone, an easy way to reinforce prints

Printing with more infill is an easy way to reinforce prints.

Orienting your piece well on the build plate to take advantage of the anisotropy goes a long way too.

This problem already has an easy solution, and that's before you get into the more complicated ones (like nonplanar extrusion).

This is idea isn't solving the problem of prints being weak in general. It's an idea about (potentially, maybe, if someone else makes it work, if it's even possible ) saving material and printing time.

It wouldn't give you prints that are stronger than those printed with 100% infill even if worked.

[mgunlogson]

It does work. Just not very well. Not enough to be widely usable.

If it was an idea it wouldn't have thousands of lines of code and working binaries.

100% infill doesn't remotely solve the problem I'm referring to. I'd ask you not jump to conclusions if you aren't experienced with 3D printing.

Printing 100% infill also wastes a ton of time and material on the interior of the part for nothing. I added a "dual infill shell" feature where you can use a light, fast infill for the interior of the part.

> It wouldn't give you prints that are stronger than those printed with 100% infill even if worked.

This is very speculative and I doubt accurate. Even 100% infill parts are 10X more brittle than injection molded ones and around half the strength. All because of z layer bonding weakness