QSN - 3D Printer Torture Test Art (Quasicrystalline Spin Network)

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This is the QSN (Quasicrystalline Spin Network). First and foremost, please watch the video attached so you have most of the information you need to print this. Second, I challenge the 3D printing community: can you print it? I spent over three months trying to get this to print extremely well, making all sorts of tweaks and tests along the way, but the very first one I tried worked perfectly! So, I know you can do it too. After you get one printed, it's all about tweaking from there - how much better can you make it? I've printed around 30 of them now, each with a new tweak. My coworker Ray had this pulled up on his screen when I walked into his office, and I said, "I think I can print that"... and three months later here we are! I spent way too much time trying to fine-tune my built-from-scratch reStock delta to make perfect prints of the QSN. I eventually achieved this goal, and now I can print some really amazing prints of the QSN. This is no easy print, but I'd love to get feedback from others who try to print one. I'm interested in seeing your method of printing this - things like: how did you generate support? What printer are you using? What filaments did you try? What slicers did you get to work? Were you able to generate a solid? Anything else you think would be helpful to share! I've had almost no luck making this a solid. It's currently "stick and balls". You'll need to make sure your slicer can handle that. I did manage to get Meshmixer to make it a water-tight solid, but it has too many triangles - it's almost overloaded for most average computers. You'll need a lot of RAM, so if you try this, use the stick and balls version, and make sure your slicer can handle it. If you have any luck making this a solid, please let me know. Something I didn't mention in the video was that I tried building custom supports in Meshmixer as well as PreForm, but it wasn't achievable. Please give it a go and let me know if you get custom supports to work. The challenge is accepted? I'm not giving out my slicer settings just yet - I want to see how you get it to work best! Later, I'll publish my slicer settings that I've used. However, each system will be different anyway, so you'll need to find your own settings... You can find more of my 3D printing research here: http://rwgresearch.com/open-projects/3d-printing-research/ Much love and God bless, ~Russ Gries My YouTube channels: Main content: https://www.youtube.com/user/rwg42985 Live 3D printing & stuff: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0JRhK5DUp4Mr_WgNBnV57A Time lapses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P8dOWKQtLE