Matlab Knot 3D Printer Model
The file 'Matlab Knot 3D Printer Model' is (stl,m) file type, size is 724.64 KB.
The file 'Matlab Knot 3D Printer Model' is (stl,m) file type, size is 724.64 KB.
As much as I love OpenSCAD, constructive solid geometry is just not efficient at certain tasks and I got tired of waiting for hundreds of spheres to be unioned and rendered to make a knot. This is a parametric Matlab script to do the same thing as MakeALot's script, but in seconds instead of hours, plus the mesh is smoother.
The [3,1] knot I printed required more material for support than the print did, but it came out nice in the end. I designed it to fit a 12.7mm steel ball I had extras of from a Geomag set. Since the knot is toroidal, the ball freely rolls around the inside without falling out.
I included a couple of other example knot STLs in case you can't run the script.
| knot24.stl |
| knot25.stl |
| knot31.stl |
| surf2stl.m |
| varKnot.m |
