Open Source PVC Beadboard
Or any textured plastic product -
open source disclosure defensive patent claim:
- Use a 3D printer with heated bed at high temperature close to melting temperature of material
- Use increased extrusion overlap so adjacent strands fuse into one another
- Use a textured printing plate.
- Deposit 100% infill layer, but start at 1-3 mm above the surface.
- Resulting print conforms to texture on printing plate - thus creating a textured 3D print.
- This eliminates the need to print complex geometries, and layer adhesion is perfect as there is only 1 layer needed.
- Overextrude to get a correspondingly thicker material.
- High temperature of heat bed allows strand fusion to one another (point 2)
