The Spiralize Characteristic Tool Feature within the PrintUP 3D Printing Software

When it comes to printing designs from the ground up, there are two main approaches that we are able to take.

From these different approaches we will be looking at the Spiralize Characteristic build up method.

Video Transcript

Alright, guys, In today's video, we're gonna be looking at the spiralis tool that's found within the characteristic feature, and this will be for print up software. But before that, let's have a quick intro first, so today's video can be found on softwaretraining.co.za. We make short and easy to watch problem solving videos, and we also have the updates. Otherwise we head into the programme here. So now at today's video, we're gonna be looking at the spiral tool. Like I said, men, this will be part of the characteristic feature. So now, in order to locate it, you can simply go to your main menu on top here. When I zoom in for you guys, fix my zoom, and then if you click on the characteristic, you go down and you'll see we have your spiral lights on and spiralis off. Now if I had to go into the preview. Unfortunately, though, we cannot see it in the preview if that's on. But, um, I will just go there, in any case, to try and explain what happens then. Now, by default. When it's off, the 3D printer will print your letter or channel letters in layers. And what happens is if I, um, use this top layer and minimise the or reduce the actual process. We'll see here right in the beginning. We've got this little edge over there now, as I increase it, it will run along and print at the first top layer until it's complete. Now, what will be happening with a spiral feature? It will start at one point and go in a circle. And when it finally gets to this point, it will kind of just climb it at, like, a step and carry on. Carry on. Now, this can be convenient in some ways, but, uh, personally, the problem I find with it is it's very hard to get a nice, uh, level top surface at the end. So when your design is finally done, you will have somewhere a little end where it climbed up all the way or spiralled all the way to the top. So, yeah, you can use this. I recommend just going with a normal one where it just does a layer at a time with the spiralis. Um, yeah, it can be convenient in some cases, but in most cases. I like to just leave it off, but yeah, otherwise, that is it. On the spiralis feature. Just make sure if you do not use it to get characteristic and switch it off again. But give it a try. See? Maybe it works for your design needs. Yeah, otherwise, that is re tool. If we take you to softwaretraining.co.za. You guys will notice we've got a variety of different Softwares we do cover. And you can also isolate your search on the top or right. If you do not. However, find the training videos you're looking for, just simply go. Yeah, request the training video, fill in the mini form, and then we'll do our best to try and make that for you. But otherwise thanks, guys, for watching and cheers.