Texturing 3D Prints for Strength!

Textured or smooooth? What's your preference?
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I haven't seen a texturing section in Lychee, but I'll give it a go in ZBrush with noisemaker👌

Wow today I learned

Functional-parts-guys unite! Nobody needs more vases after all

Have you ever tested cooling conditions against warping? Fans. Cold garage. Acetone spray. Layer height breaks. That type of thing.

Does anyone know if you can apply texture to one wall? Im priting wall tiles with abwave pattern on front and flat back. The back bows outward in a couple spots and in using sunlu pla+. Not sure if i should decrease my temperature a little or turn the fan down or up to help counter a little if i cant texture just the back

I can see this being used to dramatically stiffen a hollow object by just applying it to the innermost of say 3 layers. The outer layer will still have whatever features you initially wanted, maybe a smooth box or cylinder, but the inner layer stuffens the shape without being seen.

I suppose it could be done like the corrugated cardboard with the center layer, but it would be more likely to show through to the aesthetic outer shell.

It is intuitive at first, I immediately thought of shipping containers.

Muchas gracias, pero tengo una duda, una vez hecha la textura a la pieza con IdeaMaker, es posiblr guardar el archivo en .stl y que guarde la textura para imprimirla más tarde. Lo he guardado y al abrirlo por ej. con Tinkercad desaparece la textura.
Una vez hecha la textura y guardo el archivo, solo se puede abrir con IdeaMaker para ver nuevamente la textura.
Muchas gracias

Great video, but do you know if ideamaker allows you to configure the depth of the texturing? Example I want the texturing to come out more than 3 or 6 mm, is it possible?

Thanks!
One of the many design features that make jerry cans so effective is the folding on the large faces.

Can ideamaker export the modified STL so it can be sliced in another program? I'd rather have this data stored in the model than the gcode or slicer project.

This is actually quite helpful I'll probably use this in this design for the centrifuge rotor I'm designing.

Can it work for d3d drone fixed wing printed drones with textured?

lightweight internal spacers could be a use for stiffer vase-mode walls

Wondering when we get some rather useful new features in slicing software like N-Layer Vace Mode.

Does this exist in the latest version of Cura?

Fantastic review

Hallo ! Why doesn't the texture work on the top layer ?

is there a way to apply the texture only on the outside?

Texture for 3D Plane Prints - Anyone tried it - was the first idea that came to my mind, I bought my first Printer February 2022 so I am a bit behind, but now have 3! and it's May - own several printing and wrap companies and sold them in the past - this looks interesting - also as a substrate under a vinyl graphic - anyhow LW PLA pre-foamed with a texture I would think texturing the inside layer but leaving the outside smooth - if it's possible would eliminate the need for weighted supports..

So, heres a thought, how about extrude texturing the inside perimeter of the print facing in to the infill pattern ? That way smooth exterior of the print is maintained when needed, however strength benefits are retained.

really cool vid/ i am using 3d printting for robotics and this really helped!

Does idea maker have vase mode?

Mein Gott! ich dachte das du hast 35 jahren! aber du sieht das du has 22 jahren! ( i thought you were older)

I tried Ideamaker on both a Linux and Windows computer and it crashed on both. But the feature is great. I'd use it for adding logos to a print.

Very useful. Almost like fuzzy mode, just better options

I'd call it bump map or displacement map, not texturing. Great idea though

I love this idea. The other benefit is it makes each path longer. Thus any shrinkage is lower by percentage of length x distance on it's natural cooling/shrink ratio instead of shrinking by distance of start point and end point as a line. So this is a great concept to prevent shrink damage. In short, while it cools the distance from texture outside to texture inside may become less peak-to-peak (think sine-waves on an oscilloscope) but that also takes up some of the risk of it pulling too much the original straight path distance.

Oooooo what about a software that adds the texture directly to the stl? Should be a thing right?

perfect. this looks way easier than Ntopology or Inspire fr making beads. thanks! this what i need.

Amazing video! The level of demonstration with simple real-world objects resulted in many "aha" moments ;)

Is this in prusa slicer?

Find die Begrüßung richtig geil xD

Heck yes easier stippling on 3D printed lowers.

Well, das war nicht von Pappe, sondern ein starkes Stück. In a good way.

Thank you, I was getting comfy with Cura and Superslicer. Now this is something that I really miss in both of the programs.

Does it add strength or just stiffness?

Isn't this literally what infill does, if you use a variant like cubic that add strength in all directions? Functionally, these textures add wall thickness since the print no longer has smooth sides on the inside and out - the textured print is much "thicker" even though the actuall wall may be a millimeter. At that point you may as well just make it double walled a few millimeters thick and put the texturing in the walls, in the form of cubic or triangle infill or something along those lines, it seems to me.

It's only decorative. A real part must be engineered right.

Have you tested different glues that work well with different filament types? I'm curious how 3D printed parts that are made in sections might be joined together... and also which types of glues have different benefits, for example some expand, some need clamping, some will fuse surfaces together, etc... I'm also wondering if this might help PLA designs to take advantage of multiple printing orientations/layer thicknesses to maximise strength/speed where that is desired... thanks.

Very cool video Stefan, thanks for sharing. Always fun to experiment with new slicers too. I have a dilemma I am so far unable to solve. I am printing a 3 RC airplane in PLA and when I print the wing sections, which are 20 cm high or so, the surface collapses inward in the areas there there is little inner support. Which is annoying, particularly for the upper surface of the wing which needs to be clean. The skin becomes concave in some areas....Other than doubling the thickness and sanding the print after, I cannot figure out how to make it stronger. I would have to redesign it in CAD I guess, which is above my current level of modeling knowledge. I was hoping I could use a texture that is applied to the inner wall only, making it stronger while the outside of the wing remains smooth. Not too sure how to approach this hurdle! The search goes on.

increase wall thickness

Wow. I got to try printing that spotted Benchy.

Ribbed for her pleasure :P

Can the textured model be exported to stl?