Belt made for a friend of mine for a dress to be 3D printed in TPU. I used the new “InflateCrv” command to create it.
That is pretty cool! I wonder, can it be animated?
I don’t have access to the WIP at the moment, can you sub-edit parts or do you have to do bits and then chop and fuse them?
I hope you can share images of the final part when you’ve printed it?
woooow! that is awesome!!
@andy6 I’ll need to split it into several parts and create interlocking joints. Then it will be sewn onto a dress by a seamstress. If everything goes according to plan, I’ll definitely share the final result here.
These are some examples of pieces made by other people, but the process is the same.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DatHV-bsLu6/
https://www.instagram.com/p/DZeEwOzPkmJ/
For anyone still interested, here are a few parts of the belt featuring textures and other details created using @taraskydon plugin.
Please do post some WIP pics and the final work. Looks fantastic, especially printing over a mesh.
No issues with bed adhesion then lol.
Looks awesome 
I had quite a battle last night. After six failed attempts, for one reason or another, the damn TPU is finally printing the way it should. The filament played a nasty trick on me inside the hotend: at one point, the material stopped extruding, and after taking it apart I found that it had formed a knot, preventing the filament from moving in either direction. But finally, it’s printing now.
Now it’s finally printing properly. Hopefully nothing goes wrong halfway through the print.
First piece (There are some strings to remove).
Great work, thanks for sharing.
This is awesome.
I guess jewelery designers will have some fun with InflateCrv.
(I’m no expert though)
Did you dry the filament? Tpu can be difficult to print with and may require some adjustments with the slicer settings
Nice work!
@CADARTZ Thanks! In my case the spool was brand new, so moisture wasn’t the problem — no drying needed. What really made the difference was slowing down the travel speed: with TPU, fast and jerky non-print moves ruin the surface, so lowering that cleaned things up a lot (it also helped with the stringing).
For reference, here’s the profile I settled on — ELEGOO Neptune 3 Plus, Generic TPU 95A, 0.4 mm nozzle:
- Layer height: 0.2 mm
- Walls: 0.84 mm (3 lines)
- Top layers: 0 / Bottom layers: 5 (0.8 mm top/bottom)
- Infill: 100%, Lines
- Nozzle: 235 °C / Bed: 50 °C
- Print speed: 25 mm/s (with reduced travel speed)
- Retraction on, Z-hop off
- Fan: 40%
- Supports on (Normal, everywhere)
- Build plate adhesion: Skirt
Nice!
