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 Iā€™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€˜testā€™
; 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, Iā€™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 betterā€¦ I need to give some of these a try.

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Killer designs! What material sand is this? Iā€™m getting close with testing now!

Just baking soda. Iā€™ve tried several brands and I think clabber girl is the best. Youā€™d think all soda would be the same, but thereā€™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 didnā€™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 isnā€™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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