#replicator 2

Since my company made some nice cars for Assetto Corsa, I decided that I should experiment with printing them in 3D.

Obviously getting the parts prepared takes some time as they were modeled for in-game use. 

Making it 3D print friendly is a different story. I’ll write on this in a later post in more depth.

After fiddling around with Repetier Host and Cura for slicing, it occured to me that I had no idea if the settings in the configuration would work or not. So even though the slicing time was impressive, I went back to skeinforge on ReplicatorG, because I don't have a machine to do extensive testing on.

So to fix the slow slicing speed, I changed to a different Python interpreter, in this case PyPy. Since ReplicatorG uses Python 2.7, you need to make sure to get the right version from here.

Unpack the file somewhere handy, go to ReplicatorG settings and navigate to the PyPy.exe in the Python interpreter settings. Slicing should be 5-10 times faster now. Not sure how muchn I gained, but what used to take at least 45 minutes now takes about 5, so I'm happy!

I designed some Giant Tetris Wall Art pieces for free download. They're 3D wall art tiles in the form of Tetriminos. Attach to walls with some ticky tack or nails.

Use these Tetriminos safely and responsibly. Improper use can set off OCD rage and Tetris PTSD table flipping in some folks.