{"id":3473,"date":"2016-08-29T15:17:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T15:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=3473"},"modified":"2016-08-29T15:17:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T15:17:46","slug":"3d-printing-more-like-2-5d-printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=3473","title":{"rendered":"3D printing? More like 2.5D printing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='http:\/\/ifttt.com\/images\/no_image_card.png' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Saw this post about part orientation. Current printers and slicers aren&#8217;t really taking advantage of the Z-axis properly&#8230;This means that the only flat surfaces are perpendicular or parallel to the bed.Is there any way to generate gcode which is able to take advantage of the Z axis to produce smoother surfaces?Some slicers have vase mode, but it&#8217;s limited to a single outline. Also some absurdly expensive stratysys machines can do this sort of thing. Obviously most printers wouldn&#8217;t be able to do that &#8211; due to a slight lack of axis &#8211; but the general idea of extruding in a plane which isn&#8217;t aligned with the build plate.In CNC machining we can do this sort of thing. I guess removing material to make a smooth surface is a bit easier than adding it given that you need to make sure there&#8217;s material in place to support it&#8230;Okay this post is a bit rambling and I don&#8217;t have a clear point. Great. http:\/\/ift.tt\/2bybpkR<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw this post about part orientation. Current printers and slicers aren&#8217;t really taking advantage of the Z-axis properly&#8230;This means that the only flat surfaces are perpendicular or parallel to the bed.Is there any way to generate gcode which is able to take advantage of the Z axis to produce smoother surfaces?Some slicers have vase mode, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=3473\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;3D printing? More like 2.5D printing&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,8,9],"class_list":["post-3473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-3dprinters","tag-3dprinting","tag-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3474,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473\/revisions\/3474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}