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Chapter 8
Consideration about models orientations
The possibilities offered by your Sharebot NG are very broad, but like all technological tools, this must be
understood and used by applying various measures over time more and more sophisticated. If on the one
hand, as 3D printer technology, promises to create any shape but are frequent cases where a print ends
with a big disappointment.
Orientation
Let’s start with a consideration on guidance of the pieces in relation to the printing: mechanism of object
creation is in layers and each layer is created that it overlaps the previous one. When a wall or a surface
is tilted more than 45 degrees, or some parts have not beneath them earlier layers (based in vacuum), it
has to do with a certain specific measures requesting model. The first question concerns the possibility to
rotate the model with respect to print plan to improve or resolve the issue of inclinations.
Spins may be needed by 90 or 180 degrees, thus changing the portion resting on the press plane. In gen-
eral, if you can find an orientation that allows a reasonable flat surface extension to be in contact with the
press, you are ensuring the tightness of the object to the plate during the printing process.
Let’s take the example of a door: printed in its natural position (vertical) would have a thin backing, as op-
posed to lying down would potentially a lot more contact surface wide and stable. May be details (such as
the handle, for example) that don’t allow the support: in this case we recommend you remove the handle
to print it separately, attaching it with a little glue in its original position. An excellent example of how the
orientation can make a printable object without any problems (or, as we shall see, adding media) can be
found at http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:37978.
It is a house-shaped lamp.