I’ve been using gyroid infil almost exclusively since I first tried it.

I was using cubic before, which was fine, but gyroid seems much sturdier for the same % infil even if it does take a bit more print time.

Also it looks awesome.

  • @lapis
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    89 months ago

    I just wish it didn’t take so much longer to print than adaptive cubic at the same infill percent.

    • Carighan Maconar
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      49 months ago

      True, although the idea is to print significantly less of it because of how sturdy it is.

      • @lapis
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        19 months ago

        Oh interesting, so is the idea you could use, say, 10% gyroid instead of 20% adaptive cubic?

      • @lapis
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        39 months ago

        Yes, adaptive cubic varies the density of the cubic structure to decrease filament usage while supposedly maintaining the same strength as normal cubic. And, in my own experience, gyroid always takes longer to print than adaptive cubic – sometimes it only adds a few minutes, but I’ve seen it add nearly half of the print time again for infill-heavy prints.

    • @Jtskywalker@lemm.eeOP
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      39 months ago

      Same. Sometimes you want something fast. For things that don’t need to be sturdy at all (little display figures and stuff like that) I’ll use cubic or even lightning infil

      • newIdentity
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        29 months ago

        You could also just use a lower infill percentage since it’s stronger

        • @Jtskywalker@lemm.eeOP
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          19 months ago

          There’s a type of cubic that starts out lower and increases in density as it reaches the top to support the top layers. That’s mainly the one I was thinking of. I can’t remember the name of it though. And lightning is suuuper fast but provides basically no strength