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Chainmail experiment #1

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There are more elegant chain mail alternatives on here but this is my own experiment with alternately interlocked donuts in a hexagonal structure. I've minimised the polygon count but it's still a very greedy beast when it's slicing time. I left my old Intel Atom processor based box slicing late evening and found the chain mail section completing on my printer in the morning. Slicing took about 7 hours, printing just an hour and a quarter. I printed at 0.4mm layer height with a 0.45mm nozzle and the extruder set to 193 degrees. I'm still refining techniques, I've noticed that bringing temperature down a lot helps when printing out into space and extra thin layers don't turn corners out in unsupported space as well as thicker layers do. If I print this varian again I'd go for 0.3mm layers and drop the temperature a couple of degrees lower. This first design worked, printed to completion but then I spent most of an hour carefully working the links free from each other. If your printer ha
Source
Thingiverse
What you need to print this: Beginner Medium confidence
Why?
0.40mm layers
Single piece
Supports 1/3
Assembly 0/3
Settings 1/3
Bed size 0/3
Post-process 0/3
Printer
FDM / FFF
File format
STL
Material
Layer height
0.4 mm
Est. print time
7 h
Software
Cura, PrusaSlicer, or similar
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