Infinity

This was drawn over a simple horizontal wipe:



; Content type: shape
; Layer:
; Shape: Circle
; Name: polygon
; Number of lobes: 2
; Visible: true
; X offset: 0
; Y offset: 0
; Number of loops: 320
; When transforming shape: smear
; Spin: false
; Grow: false
; Track: true
; Track size: 73
; Track length: -15.95
; Number of loops at each track position: 1
; Track grow: false

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Beautiful.

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Beautiful tracks!

I realize this is an older post but I just fisnished building a sand table and I’ve started playing around with sandify. I got your first two designs to work in sandify after messing around with the intial width and height and they turnd out great but I cant seem to figure out the ā€œinfinityā€ design. When I enter the values the preview looks lopsided and not right hahaha, do you have and tips on what I should try?

Thanks

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Comments:

; Created by Sandify
;
; Version: 0.2.6
;
; Machine type: Rectangular
; Min X (mm): 5
; Max X (mm): 520
; Min Y (mm): 5
; Max Y (mm): 325
; Content type: shape
; Layer:
; Shape: Circle
; Name: circle
; Number of lobes: 2
; Direction: clockwise
; Visible: true
; Initial width: 0.55
; Initial height: 0.55
; X offset: 0
; Y offset: 0
; Rotate (degrees): 0
; Reverse path: false
; Number of loops: 320
; When transforming shape: smear
; Scale: true
; Scale (+/-): 100
; Scale by: constant
; Spin: false
; Track: true
; Track size: 73
; Track length: -15.95
; Number of loops at each track position: 1
; Scale track: false
; Fine tuning:
; Connect to next layer: line
; Draw portion of path (%): 100
; Backtrack at end (%): 0
; Rotate starting point (%): 0
; Reverse export path: false
;
; File name: ā€˜test’
; File type: gcode
;
; BEGIN PRE

Some of those parameters have changed. I think the key is the original had grow: false and yours has scale: true. Which is making the lopes get bigger each loop.

I played around with it a bit. Maybe try this for your size table:
; Created by Sandify
; https://sandify.org
; Version: 0.2.6
;
; Machine type: Rectangular
; Min X (mm): 5
; Max X (mm): 520
; Min Y (mm): 5
; Max Y (mm): 325
; Content type: shape
; Layer:
; Shape: Circle
; Name: polygon
; Number of lobes: 2
; Direction: clockwise
; Visible: true
; Initial width: 202
; Initial height: 210
; X offset: 0
; Y offset: 0
; Rotate (degrees): 0
; Reverse path: false
; Number of loops: 320
; When transforming shape: smear
; Scale: false
; Spin: false
; Track: true
; Track size: 53
; Track length: -15.95
; Number of loops at each track position: 1
; Scale track: false
; Fine tuning:
; Connect to next layer: line
; Draw portion of path (%): 100
; Backtrack at end (%): 0
; Rotate starting point (%): 0
; Reverse export path: false

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Thanks Jeffeb3 the scale thing was defiantly messing me up.
Thanks for the new settings khgrap, I’m just about to run them on my table, I let you know how goes.
:grinning:

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It worked well, thanks again.

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I moved this thread and am going to try and break it up a bit so we can share these better… I need to give some of these a try.

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Killer designs! What material sand is this? I’m getting close with testing now!

Just baking soda. I’ve tried several brands and I think clabber girl is the best. You’d think all soda would be the same, but there’s definitely a difference.

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I know that this is quite an old topic, but I would like to draw this very nice infinity image also on my self built sand table. Unfortunately even with a view tries, I didn’t manage it. I seem to make a mistake between the effects ā€œloopā€ and ā€œtrackā€.

Can someone please share a current Sandify sdf-file, which works?

I would appreciate you help very much.

This is amazing! That infinity sand photo was perfection.

This pattern was made before sandify 1.0. The loop parameters changed. It isn’t possible to just reuse them. You can import the gcode (if you had it) or recreate it from scratch. Sorry. Breaking patterns like these was a consequence of progress.

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This might be close:

infinity.zip (801 Bytes)

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Jeff,

great, thank you very much. You helped me a lot. My sandtable is already working :slight_smile:

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