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Nanoscribe cone grid v1

8x8mm hexagonal grid of 5um cones for Nanoscribe printing.

STL generator for an 8 mm x 8 mm hexagonal grid of cones.

  • Units: microns.
  • Lattice pitch: 5 um.
  • Cone base diameter: 5 um, so neighboring cone bases touch.
  • Cone height: 5 um.
  • Cone mesh: closed-base, 6-sided conical approximation to keep STL size down.

The full 8 mm x 8 mm STL contains about 3 million cones. Since STL cannot reuse cell references, the full binary STL is estimated above 1 GB. The default run writes a smaller preview and records the full-size estimate.

Run preview:

python generate_stl.py

Write the full STL:

python generate_stl.py --full --force-large

Outputs:

  • cone_grid_preview_250um.stl
  • cone_grid_8mm.stl if full generation is requested
  • cone_grid_params.json

Source: crystal_deposition/nanoscribe_cone_grid_v1/