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3D Printed Hair

August 29, 2023

Description

The fundamental technique used to simulate hair with FDM printers involves pushing out small pieces of plastic material and promptly and swiftly repositioning the extruder. This results in a "string" outcome, effectively "sketching" hair that stretches in the direction of motion.

Reference: 3D Printed Hair

Design

First, we can find a desired 3D model from the Thingiverse, which will include 3D-printed hair. And then, slice the 3D model using Ultimaker and save it as Gcode.

You can upload the G-Code using G-Code analyzer to see 2D and 3D version of your 3D Model.

Using the 2D view, locate the position where you want to add hairs.

By modifying G-code, you can generate the hair like below. The green lines are the hair generated with the G-code modification.

Result

After we print it with a 3D printer, we have the figure with hair on its head.