Loops and 3D Printing

Loops are a lot of fun. I designed these components that are made to attach to each other. These were made in rhino using pipe command and 3D printed with twice the thickness of the size of the nozzle. I used an ultimaker 2+ ( nozzle 0.6 mm) so the pipe had to be 1.2 mm in order for the cura software to read and print. Each component takes about 10 min - 15 min to print and you can make pretty interesting shapes by applying rules of attachment. For example the sombrero was made by looping too loops into one every three. It was crucial to understand knitting and crocheting in order to develop this method as it is based in hyperbolic geometries.