it's made of this hexagonal chain-mail stuff, which can be printed in one piece with no assembly required
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:341707 here's the dress
they appear to be printing large reams of the "fabric", to then make into dresses later? weird, surely they just print the whole dress as one piece. i'm confused.
The hex chain mail is printed as one piece, you don't need to assemble.
OK, SO WOW. that was the point of the post: I'M SAYING WOW: WOW. A whole dress, that's cool.
but how did they print that though? it's huge, too big to fit flat on a normal consumer 3d printer bed. Or can you print it folded somehow.
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i can't really understand the explanation on the discussion page:
huh? are they talking about multiple centrally controllable nozzles all printing at once liek this?...I use 4 Flashforge printers with PLA with dual extrusion mode. ( 8 nozzles working at the same time, 27 days.)...
anyway, assuming they didn't just print small sections and clip them together afterwards (coz BORIIIIIING), i wonder if they used a conveyor belt (or even a printer on wheels) to have a continuous build platform. It's not something you see a lot of, pretty cool if they used that. I reckon you'd print continually and have the conveyor belt going continually, printing a few segments at a time, have multiple layers going at once so it's all one big contuinuous print like a continuous pour concrete technique.
ok OP post is over, clicking SUBMIT now
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