We’ve used wood filament before, and we hazily remember a Cura plugin that changed temperatures to create wood grain. But unlike [Patrick Gibney], we never thought of printing a faux wood log coaster that looks like it has rings. Check out the video below to see how it works.
The filament is not really wood, of course, but a polymer — usually PLA — mixed with wood particles. Changing the temperature does a nice job of darkening the wood. However, it also changes the properties of the carrier polymer, and that’s not always a good thing.
[Patrick] is manually adjusting the temperature and only using the wood filament for a layer or two, which is smart — there’s no reason to have wood-grained patterns inside your print. There have been scripts for this technique, although some are too outdated to work with modern slicers.
While we aren’t a fan of printing the dark areas at nearly 300C, it seems to work, and the rough appearance helps in this particular case.
Another option is to print using sawdust. There are plenty of exotic filament options out there. Wood is only the tip of the… tree?
Pretty confident your link to a reddit post about a DoorDash driver stealing Taco Bell isn’t intentional?
+1
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Knives and guns coming out over some tacos? Sheesh
The square ones make me wonder what it would look like if you grew a tree branch inside a piece of square tube and then sawed it
It’d still have round center unless someone put the sapling in a square mold and adjust it every few months to accommodate tree grown to keep it squared. I doubt there can be truly square wood cut like the printed wood.
It could be sandwiched between four pressurised airbags, so that in cross section the plant is always occupying a rectangular Voronoi cell as it grows.
I don’t know if new branches would bud off in that situation, or what would happen if they did; I guess it would depend on the plant anyway.
It works with bamboo
there is a square forest,seedlings are painted with
four stripes of growth hormone and after a number of years repeated application become square,and thereafter will continue to grow square
also in japan a radical steam and press rolling mill
can just square them up the hard way
both methods are not fully comercialised due too costs
So now we call it “3D printing”?
I think it’s more Tree day printing.
I was hinting to the 3d printing in the morning while reading HaD and other news on the preferred device.
Yes, but does it roll down stairs, alone or in pairs? Does it still roll over your neighbor’s dog? Is it still great for a snack, while fitting on your back? It is, after all, log.
Cling tenaciously to my 3D printer!
I love log.
Finally I can 3D print a Minecraft log