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Conical Slicing: A different angle of 3D printing
Current 3D printing slicers are dumb. What I mean by this is that even though they are slicers for 3D printing they simply stack 2-dimensional layers on top of each other to form your final part. There are basically no movements within the GCode instructions where all 3 axes move simultaneously. Tha
A bunch of weeks ago I’ve shown this technique in my RotBot video, where I visited the University of Applied Science in Winterthur, Switzerland, where they built a 4-axis Prusa printer that can manufacture complete overhangs without the need for support structure. The conical slicing approach, which stems from the RotBot project, even improves this concept and tilts the printing layers around a central axis and therefore forms a cone. The first code is pre-deforming the stl in a reverse cone shape, by simply moving the points of the mesh upwards, depending on their distance to the center axis.
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