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Slicer Settings For “Indestructible” Battle-Bot Worthy PLA Parts

Hackaday·Tyler August·about 1 month ago
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If you follow [Maker’s Muse] on YouTube, you know he’s as passionate about robot fights these days as he is about the tools he uses to make the robots. Luckily for us, he’s still got fame as a 3D printing YouTuber, as this has given him the platform to share his trade secrets for strong, robot-combat-worthy prints . He fights robots in a ‘plastic ant-weight’ division, which restricts not only the weight of the robot but also the materials used. Not only must they be primarily plastic, but only certain plastics are allowed: PLA is in, but engineering filaments, Nylon, and TPU are out. Since necessity is the mother of invention, this has led to strong evolutionary pressure to figure out how to print the most impact-resilient PLA parts for armor and spinners. He’s using the latest OrcaSlicer and shares the profile as a pay-what-you-want 3MF file . It’s all about solidity: a solid part with solidly fused walls and solidly linked layers.…

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