3D Printable Spring

For one of my projects, I needed a custom spring that was not available anywhere and so I sought out to design one 3d printable.

Initially, without the pillars, the first inch of the spring printed out beautifully with the quality deteriorating the higher up the spring got. I saw that each time the nozzle tried to print up higher, the nozzle would cause the spring to bounce back and fourth, causing significant quality loss.

I got around this by adding the 6 .3in pillars to the spring. Th