Encouraged by some comments on yesterday’s post, I printed the same bracket again, laying on its side:
The horizontal base comes out ok (I cleaned up the hole):
Interestingly, the top of the bracket isn’t filled in, which is actually better:
The sides look much better as well:
(the Skeinforge settings aren’t perfect yet, layers could be mashed smoother together)
But wow – what a difference this makes! Thanks for the tip!
Here’s another object, a Geneva Wheel from Thingiverse:
Turning is not very smooth, had to cut off some plastic from the round shafts, but hey: it works!
PS. Don’t worry, I’m working most of my time on JeeNode stuff, hardware and software that is… ;)