Both my 16 yr old and 12 yr old are in the EAST Initiative and have both used 3D printers. This is my youngest son's first year in the program and his first time using a 3D printer.
I'm the coach for my youngest son's First Lego League Robotics team. For their project this year, they wanted to redesign some areas of their city park that are in need of serious fixes. The boys (it's a team of 3 boys) wanted to make a model of the park using an aerial photo of the city park with 3D models of the areas they are working on.
Here comes the dilemma... One of the areas they are adding to the city park is a Gaga Ball Pit. This is usually in a hexagon or octagon shape...
It's similar to dodge ball... Anyway, they are wanting to 3D print a hexagon, but my son is running into a problem with the printer. Each time he tries to print the shape, it seems to only print off one 'quadrant' of the hexagon. It will print an x axis, form the 'foot' of the outer wall with a corner, then print the y axis. The cropped area that is brighter is what is being printed each try:
So, we stop the print each time.
I don't know why it would only be trying to print off that quadrant of the hexagon. Does it have anything to do with how it's spliced and saved for the print?
I'm also learning as I go here, and only when I am actually up at the school with him when he is printing. If anyone here has any idea what could be going wrong, please let me know.
I'm the coach for my youngest son's First Lego League Robotics team. For their project this year, they wanted to redesign some areas of their city park that are in need of serious fixes. The boys (it's a team of 3 boys) wanted to make a model of the park using an aerial photo of the city park with 3D models of the areas they are working on.
Here comes the dilemma... One of the areas they are adding to the city park is a Gaga Ball Pit. This is usually in a hexagon or octagon shape...
It's similar to dodge ball... Anyway, they are wanting to 3D print a hexagon, but my son is running into a problem with the printer. Each time he tries to print the shape, it seems to only print off one 'quadrant' of the hexagon. It will print an x axis, form the 'foot' of the outer wall with a corner, then print the y axis. The cropped area that is brighter is what is being printed each try:
So, we stop the print each time.
I don't know why it would only be trying to print off that quadrant of the hexagon. Does it have anything to do with how it's spliced and saved for the print?
I'm also learning as I go here, and only when I am actually up at the school with him when he is printing. If anyone here has any idea what could be going wrong, please let me know.