T-Glass Vase

[Zerosink]

just can't get the photo to show how awesome this looks.

[edward]

what were you speeds and temps?


looks pretty good to me!

[Zerosink]

30 mm/s, 215 hot end, 60 on the bed till the bottom 3 layers were down then dropped to 40 for the rest of the print.
0.3mm layer, vase setting in Slic3r.
It has a hologram effect to it, changes as you tilt/turn it.
I am very happy with it

[edward]

Thanks for the info! I'm looking forward to trying this stuff out myself.

The only thing that I don't like about the nylons and pet materials so far is the low speeds required. I can run ABS at 140 mm/s and get great results, so 30 mm/s is as if the machine is sitting still.

Other than that, they look great!

[Zerosink]

The larger one ... I bumped up the speed to (30mm/s) x 120% and bumped the temp up to 220.
The first 3 layers don't like the speed. Had to do them at 30mm/s and slicer slows it down to 30% of that
so 10mm/s on them. Looking at them real close I can't see any diff in what the speed or temp did.

Here is the first 40 min of the big one sped up 10 times
https://vimeo.com/74587014

[lordbinky]

Are you using dye methods like you do for nylon?

[Zerosink]

Ummm... I use a Sharpie
If you mark only 1 side of the filament it gives a really good optical effect as you tilt it up/down.
Diff effects depending on what side you mark. Colors may change when you print, red sharpie makes a good Gold
You can see the color through the clear part of each layer.
I can "see" through the tikiman... but can't make the picture show it.

[Zerosink]

Backlit with a white LED and tilted a bit.

[lordbinky]

My brain sploded.

[Jimustanguitar]

Eric from Trick Laser showed me a tglase stretchlet that failed, and that stuff it strong! The strip that he had was only about 1/4" wide, it stretched into about a 12" diameter circle, and I bet that it would have held my body weight!

Definitely going to buy some.

[Zerosink]

OK... I just couldn't splain how good this colored t-glass looks

This is how I sharpie-colored the Tiki man t-glass.
In the photo I used PLA for its contrast. You can see it is a small thin stripe.
That lil thin red stripe made the gold color on the tiki man.

Now the results, a tilt-test
https://vimeo.com/74679404

To color the wine bottle in the video,
I wrapped the clear t-glass around a 4inch pvc pipe and colored it.
The print .. well the green didn't show that well, but anyway

I don't think I would do it this way again.

[Navkram]

that is awesome great job thinking outside the box....

[Mechman]

Omg, sorry to resurrect this thread but what amazing prints. Have just watched your video several times and am truly stunned. Awesome!

[DdeWaard]

oh man! this looks so cool!

i got my Rmax almost completed now, only the hot end needs to be mounted, waiting for monday so i can buy some high temp sillicone and kepton tape and some wires need to be... wired.
lcd works already and the arms move beautifully
bought it 2 weeks ago, took more than a week for shipping across the atlantic. I also got myself some ABS, PLA and a spool of red T-glass. the printer is here now but i don't have any of the filament yet...
i want to do this kind of coloring aswell, do i just mark/dye the surface of the spool for a certain amount of filament length to make the colors change?
by the way, i think red might not be the best color for that, right?

thanks.

[PeterGrant]

What particular T-glase did you use here? Maybe it's like this one http://www.3d2print.net/shop/product/ta ... ase-clear/. As what I've know, glase is very strong; yet it's very different from nylons as it hardens like PLA and ABS. BTW, that's an amazing PLA and T-glase experiment.

[bubbasnow]

What particular T-glase did you use here? Maybe it's like this one http://www.3d2print.net/shop/product/ta ... ase-clear/. As what I've know, glase is very strong; yet it's very different from nylons as it hardens like PLA and ABS. BTW, that's an amazing PLA and T-glase experiment.

yea this post was before they had colored t-glase. now they have clear, red, blue, and green

[uaigodwin]

This looks awesome! What color T-Glass filament did you use for this one? It looks like multiple colors.

[Tinyhead]

This looks awesome! What color T-Glass filament did you use for this one? It looks like multiple colors.

Read the last two pages. He says exactly what he did and demonstrates how he did it. Check out the video above. Really cool trick.