'concentric bridging' possible?

Is there a way to have bridging go to the shortest route between a gap? I see the directional options in settings to kind of rotate the pattern, but when an object is round, its not really effective.

edit: To clarify, in the screenshot example, there are very large bridge gaps near the upper and lower portions of the image that would make more sense to just bridge in a perpendicular direction.

Welcome to the forum.

I don’t think there is a bridging option that will allow anything but monotonic or whatever its doing there.

But this doesn’t seem like a big deal.

  • the sparse infill pattern is odd and not helping you out much, it could, but no matter because…
  • the bridging may be a bit wonky but its going to be hidden inside the part it appears and will work itself out perfectly in 1mm top shell layers in all likelihood.
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Yeah, I figured it was a bit odd. I think its meant to be mostly air so that the tpu material can act like a soft-ish tire for an RC car, I’ll probably just need to experiment and see. May end up just getting purpose built pre-made rc tires, but wanted to see if the print would suffice.

Thank you for the feed back :slight_smile:

A shame there isn’t more flexibility in the bridging feature, but i guess if its mostly hidden like you said, it doesn’t matter all that much realistically if it properly supports.

Ah yeah, I didn’t realize it was TPU or a tire, I think you’ll be good, that stuff is nearly indestructible.

In case anyone cares about the results; the TPU tires printed fine. No artifacts or anything. Enough top layers after the bridging made the issue irrelevant.

Sorry about the late response, forgot about this until I checked the forums out again. x.x

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Solved to create concentric surface on bridge place by adding walls (Wall Loops. Yellow line on sliсer image. It creates solid “infill”, but it reasonable in my case)