I was watching e242, is the lack of a truly smooth curve a limitation of tinker cad or 3d printing?

[G+_Jason Perry]

I was watching e242, is the lack of a truly smooth curve a limitation of tinker cad or 3d printing? Everything looks like a bunch of flat planes put together to make a curved surface.

[G+_Donald Weller]

That would be because most 3d printing is a stack of flat planes.

[G+_James Hughes]

No, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ? sets this when he makes the parts. There is another post where a member of this group did a comparison in tinker cad. You can make smooth curves. And btw Donald Weller? it's triangles not flat planes.

[G+_Donald Weller]

Flat planes are stacked. How thin those slices are can be very thin. But they are slices.

[G+_James Hughes]

I think you are confusing what the slicer software does to create the g-code with a design choice when creating a 3d object. I've attached a picture of a design that +fr. Robert Ballecer made and a redesign I made.

[G+_James Hughes]

Oops, hit post (darn fat fingers)

[G+_Jason Perry]

Just to confirm James Hughes? had it right. I am interested in what is the limiting factor that makes a cylinder have 8, 9, 10, 11, or12, sides I stead of one.