Brick-Interleaved Layers
Brick-Interleaved Layers
3D prints still suffer from bad layer adhesion due to their 2.5D slicing and printing approach. I investigated if a novel slicing method that interleaves the layer could improve the strength of 3D prints.
For anyone who prefers reading: https://www.cnckitchen.com/blog/brick-layers-make-3d-prints-stronger
Jesus, in hindsight, this is such an obvious and great design trick to increase strength that I'm surprised it didn't become more popular earlier.
Love his empirical testing and experimentation.
This makes a lot of sense. I could see this being used for printed buildings and it would be a cull circle.
it would be a cull circle.
I don't care what you say, I ain't going in that circle with you!
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Now we just need half-width extrusions on the outer wall!
The thumbnail shows a hexagonal tiling, which is like a brick-laying pattern but rotated 90 degrees, so the "half bricks" are on the top and bottom, not the sides.
Maybe it would still work to orient the hexagons so the zig-zag part is on the walls, and then fill in the gaps with half-height half-width walls. Although "half" isn't exactly correct; the hexagons give you ugly trig numbers.
What is that? You do two half widths for each perimeter and it increases strength?
I don't see why. The hexagonal grid is oriented such that the walls stack vertically like a normal print.