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My buddy has a cold plunge and this filter started cracking. After looking at it you can tell it's definitely 3d printed (and well)

On the left you can see my first attempt. I just cut rectangular holes in CAD and it's pretty close but not pretty. Printed in PETG on a K1 Max

Is there a way to do this in the slicer instead? I played around with 0 walls and different infill types but that didn't work out

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[–] MxRemy@piefed.social 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What if you printed it flat as a rectangle and then rolled it up and sealed the edges? Seems like it'd print better that way, no retractions, no bridging, no fragile areas of like ten 1mm-width layers stacked on top each other.

[–] 4lan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

That's smart! Gonna give that a try