A desktop zen garden creating harmony out of plastic and misused slicer settings
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Similar to my zenfill coasters, this creates a zen scene out of plastic and the creative misuse of slicer settings.

Works with Bambu Studio, Bambu P1P, and Bambu AMS.  Untested with any other setups.  Unlike the zenfill coasters, I don't have this one in parts for non-AMS printing.

There is a base and two scenes:

  • 000 - just the base sand, center, and frame.  
  • 001 - A simple scene with a path, rocks, and trees, 4/5 colors
  • 002 - A shipwreched benchy on a rocky beach 4/5 color scene.  
  • see below for how to do 5 colors with 1 ams

All objects added to the scene are create with slicer primatives.  The scene is built on golden ratio chords:  180mm frame, 68.75mm center, 26.26 mm bushes cut at 10.03 mm, 16.23mm stones cut at 6.2mm, and 16.23mm stepping stones.

For the 5 color scene, assuming you only have one AMS:

  • Set sand and stone (colors 2 and 6 in my scenes) to the AMS slot with the sand color
  • Set a pause at the start of  the first stone layer (layer 16), remove the sand filament and put the stone filament in its spot. 
  • For a rocky beach / pebbles on sand effect, do the same but on layer 15.  This gets one layer of grey on top of the sand.
  • Theoretically you could extend this to a sixth color by swapping the center color and top colors too.

 

Notes if you want to create your own scene:

  • See the linked zenfill coasters for ideas on different infill patterns for fire, air, etc.
  • If you add an object then group it with the sand, the slicer will create a pattern around it. 
  • If you group the object with an empty cylinder then move its z height up by 3mm you can trick the slicer as follows:
    • The stepping stones are 0.6mm assembled grouped with 3mm tall by 0.5mm diameter cylinders.  The stone's z height is then increased by 3mm (the height of the sand) the lower cylinder is set to one bottom layer, then entirely hollow with 0% infill and 0 top shells.   The lower cylinders are set to sand color.
    • The slicer complains, but will still move forward.  The printer then puts a 0.5mm dot at the base of each stepping stone.  These dots are integrated into the rest of the base layer without much/any issue.
    • No other techniques I've tried have worked to put the stepping stones on top of the sand without affecting the sand pattern.  But if you know of a way to do this in bambu/orca, please let me know.  This is extraordinarily hacky.

 

 

 

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