Now that you have a mass of PET bottles sliced into strips and your filament extruder assembled and working, you can really start producing filament and Archipelago’s islands. With many sections of bottles cut, and them all turned into filament, you can now begin welding those sections together into one long roll - but be careful, any poorly welded joints can lead to printing disaster. As long as your roll of filament is even throughout, you’ll have no problems printing piles of Islands that you can begin constructing with.
EXTRUDE
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WELD FILAMENT
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PRINT
Print as many islands as you will need to build a temporary and lightweight architectural structure which can be assembled, reformatted and reconstructed at will. The following print settings will allow for the PET filament to be printed into islands relatively quickly, depending on the capabilities of the 3D printer.
Download the V.3 Archipelago Island STL file for printing:
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