Twisted box

[jamcultur]

I printed these at 0.16 layer height using Qidi Print's defaults for all parameters except Z seam, which I specified to be inside to make the outside smoother. Z seams are ugly on shiny filaments. (Qidi Print is Qidi's customized version of Cura.)

The filaments are different brands of silk PLA. The gold and copper are Sunlu, the silver is TTY3D, and the blue is eSun.

I wrote the OpenSCAD code with customizer parameters to change the dimensions, degree of twist, and many other characteristics. I've only tested it with this box design and I think it would need adjustments to work with a wide range of designs. I'd thought I'd wait to see how much interest there was on Thingiverse before deciding whether to clean up the OpenSCAD code and upload it. Unfortunately, one of the bugs in Thingiverse apparently prevents me from uploading anything new to that thing. I'm attaching a code snippet that shows the basics of how I made the spiral arms. Please let me know if you have any questions.