Fractal Forest - Vase Mode

prusaprinters

<p>These nine decorative trees based on fractals have increasing levels of complexity, with Tree #1 printing in 1 minute and Tree #9 printing in over 9 hours.</p><p>I was inspired to design this project using Vase Mode after printing some excellent Christmas baubles downloaded from this site.</p><p>I printed in PLA at 105% extrusion. &nbsp;For the set shown, they are all scaled down by 46%, the scaling required for #9 to print in the Prusa i3 M3KS+. &nbsp;I used 10mm brim for 1-8 and 20mm for 9. &nbsp;</p><p>I highly recommend trying smaller trees (≤5) to dial in settings before going big!</p><p>At 46% size scaling, trees #1-8 printed easily for me. &nbsp;I noticed that in #8 it vibrates a lot as it prints due to stage Y motion. &nbsp;</p><p>In order to print #9 successfully, I had to slow down the print around the 7th level of tree-branching to reduce the vibrations. &nbsp;You may notice vibrations will introduce ripples into the layers before the point where it would fail. &nbsp;To adjust during your print (on M3KS+), just use the “Tune” setting during print and reduce the number down a lot from 100% till the vibrations stop. &nbsp;For #9 I both reduced speed in PrusaSlicer, then reduced further at the end with “Tune”. &nbsp; I was probably around 30% of max speed at the end.</p><p>This was built with Fusion 360 (.F3D file included. &nbsp;Largest/last few trees make it very slow.)</p><p>Approximate print times of the 9 sizes scaled down 46%:&nbsp;</p><p>1-5: Around 1-20 minutes each</p><p>6: 40 minutes</p><p>7: 90 minutes</p><p>8: &lt;4 hours</p><p>9: 9 hours if you don't slow it down, but that would probably fail. &nbsp;My first successful print was 17 hours long.</p><p>Scaled down 46% the branches on 1 &amp; 2 don't show up completely using an 0.4mm nozzle.</p><p>I included one 3mf file which was for steel 0.4mm nozzle, 10C hotter than defaults. &nbsp;</p><p>With the settings I dialed in, if I fill the trees with water to use as vases, they leak… I'll update these instructions if I get that working.</p><p>Please send a message if you run into issues with the print, and I'll fix if I can.</p>