Super Flowers (drooloop flowers)- customizable

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Make Your Own Unique Flowers with This OpenSCAD File! Create one-of-a-kind flowers with this amazing openSCAD file! Print beautiful flowers as a gift or to decorate your world. They print fast and easy - check out the instructions below. Get creative and incorporate flowers into other models or fashion (see the tie jewelry picture). The possibilities are endless - I've just scratched the surface, and I'll upload my 9 favorite flowers soon with notes on the settings. I'm exploring making drooloops, a neat shape you can get by deliberately printing in the air. This is my first attempt at something cool. Please share your print results and post pictures! If you like the black vase in the pictures, I made it using PaulM's Customizable Spirograph Vase Generator - http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:53916 Instructions: These flowers are a blast to design and print! Each print job is fun since there's a bit of randomness involved. The randomness comes from printing in mid-air to create the drooloops that make these flowers look amazing. The slicer settings I used worked with three different printers, and I'm confident they'll work with any slicer or printer if you use the models I've uploaded or create your own customizer without changing the advance tab settings. Here are my settings: All units: millimeters (mm) Layer height: 0.2 Wall thickness: 0.8 Solid layer thickness: 0.6 Fill density: 0 Support: None Platform adhesion: None Solid top: False (extra note: this is probably not your default setting... I use it to make the top hollow) Solid bottom: True Feel free to experiment and let me know if you find any improvements or interesting results! One person's "interesting result" might be another person's "that's exactly what I was looking for!" I got these flowers to print fine on three different machines (Ultimaker1, MakerGear M2, and Type!Machines Series 1), but I'm sure you can get them out of any machine. Now, I'll go into the gory details below. I learned a lot during this process, and I'd like to share some simple rules of thumb for getting more reliable and symmetrical results. If people are interested, I might even make a video about it! For More Symmetrical Flowers - Turn Fan Off Once Petals Start Printing If you don't turn off the fan, your flowers may have a wind-blown effect since the petals will drift in the direction of the fan (see "Makes" for windy flowers). To fix this, simply turn off the fan once the petals start printing. You can do this by watching the printer and turning off the fan with your controller (if you have one), or by modifying the gcode file with a simple text editor. To modify the gcode file, open it in a basic text editor and make these changes: Turn off the fans on the layer just before the petals start to print. I usually add a comment to the layer name like "mark turned off fans" and then add right below that: M106 S0 M107 This is kinda overkill, but I do it anyway! You can get the layer number needed by simple math or using the layer viewer. Search down through the rest of the print looking for "M106" and just comment out those lines by adding a semicolon to the start of them... So when you see: M106 S58 You make it say: ;M106 S58 (Depending on your slicer, settings, model, etc...you may or may not find a lot of these fan speed commands. Note: Make sure the changes are in the "petal printing area", since a full-document search and replace may turn off the fan before you want it to.) Here's a video that will help make this more clear: http://youtu.be/hYmclbTH7nw UPDATE TO VIDEO - for MakerBot people, the gcode is different. See this video for important details when using a MakerBot printer: http://youtu.be/xSOI1Sr6xIk