Fun with Gyro Cubes!
Channel: TGAW
Date: 2016-08-21

I recently uploaded my remix Gyro Cube to Thingiverse!  That's up at http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1722631 It includes three files:

1) A "Print in Place" version where all the spheres print in position and work as soon as you remove support material. 

2) A "Snap in Place" version where all the spheres print directly on the bed and you snap them into position after printing.

3) All the OpenSCAD code for future remixes. 

My version is a remix of smorloc's Big Nippled Parametric Gyro Cube (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:40760) which in turn is a remix of whosawhatsis's Parametric Gyro Cube (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:19304).  A remix of a remix!

This video hits on a bunch of things:
1) Using Simplify3D's Mesh-Separate Connected Surfaces to preview and get a feel for the connections of the existing Gyro Cube models.

2) My modifications to the Big Nippled Gyro Cube , my thought process behind my new connections, and printing the spheres in place.

3) Using Simplify3D's  Cross Section View to determine good stopping points for embedding the spheres within each other and 
using Multiple Processes to achieve a five color Gyro Cube on my single extruder machine.

4) Since my family is completely in love with Pokémon Go, I also go over using Multiple Processes and the Print-in-Place version of in Simplify3D to make a Pokeball Gyro Cube.

5) Passing on a tip from TimeFramed from the Big Thick Gyro Cube V2 (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:165424) and incorporating a vertical lift to my retractions.

Custom GCode Scripts for Embedded Spheres
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Ending
G91; relative mode
G1 Z100; lift 100mm

Starting
G90; absolute mode

Processes for Embedded Spheres
(From smallest to largest)
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Sphere 1
-One process for the whole thing

Sphere 2
-0 - 40 mms
-Insert Sphere 1
-40mms on

Sphere 3
-0 - 50 mms
-Insert Sphere 2
-50mms on

Sphere 4
-0 - 60 mms
-Insert Sphere 3
-60mms on

Sphere 5
- 0 - 71 mms
- Insert Sphere 4
- 71 mms on

Custom GCode Scripts for Pokémon Go
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(When starting I add calls to purge the nozzle due to color changes)

Ending
G91; relative mode
G1 Z100; lift 100mm

Starting
G90 ; absolute mode
G92 E0 ; zero extruder
G1 E25 F225 ; purge nozzle
G92 E0 ; zero extruder

Processes for Pokémon Go
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- 0 - 35mm - White
- 35mm - 45mm - Black
- 45mm - 80mm - Red