The first six #RedHat cookie cutters are printed. Many more to come :) Now to get some ingredients and food Color to actually make and bake the cookies :)
I did a bit of rotating, shuffling and moving around and I now have 7 cookie cutters on one 165x165mm print plate :) I guess that's close to the maximum I can squeeze on it.
And after a good night of sleep, I placed 9. This is the max I can do :) Now to throw it on the printer! (I had to reduce the skirt distance from 3 to 2 mm to get this working :)
I am sure there is a mathematical solution for optimal placement of irregular shapes somewhere out there, but I had fun while finding this manual solution :)
@jwildeboer As far as I know still "just" approximate solutions, as exact solutions are too compute intensive. My old friends at Scapos AG, an offspring of Fraunhofer SCAI (former GMD SCAI) sell auto nesting software: https://www.scapos.de/en/
@eigengott@jwildeboer "Too compute extensive" sounds somewhat weird given the amount of FLOPS even a low end GPU will do, but I uave absolutely no insight into the process
@eigengott@jwildeboer That's debatable? In the general case sure, but for specific cases with a small enough n and enough compute this can be absolutely feasible.
@rfc2549@jwildeboer Ok I was totally about to ask that 🤦. But only because I love printing cookie cutters and am on the lookout for food safe filaments - not as a criticism! (My current cookie cutters are food safe-ish).
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