I am finally getting back to this. After having several failed prints halfway thru the print or so, I simplified my idea and made it so not overhangs were happening.
I was playing with ideas for engraving on these bamboo pens & decided to play with sandify. I set the machine dimensions to the dimensions of the area I was engraving. Here are my settings I changed:
machine size 63,27
Web shape
large circle radius of 1
initial width 3
Initial height 2
X offset 0
Y offset 0
Rotate 0
Number of loops 18
Keep in tack
Scale of 100
I exported the data to gcode & wrote a lisp program to read the gcode & create a long polyline in intellicad. I took out the lines that connected the web. I found a spider dxf file from Insects | Free DXF Files | Maker Union I wanted to see what it looked like wrapped around a pen, so I inserted a decal of the created graphics into fusion 360. I might put a little more detail in the spider & see if I can calculate the spider web to wrap close to exactly around the pen. So far it looks pretty good to me.
