If it helps, it looks like they probably printed the core section at a higher infill to handle the pressure and the left and right sides at a lower infill. You can see seams.
More likely that the cut is because they had to print with a build volume. Not many printers outside pure commercial /industrial would print something that size.
strange then that the seams only run one way. Most printers have fairly cubic build volumes.
Though they could have done it to just reduce the amount of overhang and supports that would be needed. The inner surfaces could have been against the hot plate.
Knowing the absurd amount of filament it took to print this monstrosity is making me feel things.
If it helps, it looks like they probably printed the core section at a higher infill to handle the pressure and the left and right sides at a lower infill. You can see seams.
More likely that the cut is because they had to print with a build volume. Not many printers outside pure commercial /industrial would print something that size.
strange then that the seams only run one way. Most printers have fairly cubic build volumes.
Though they could have done it to just reduce the amount of overhang and supports that would be needed. The inner surfaces could have been against the hot plate.
Steel pipe with a print around it would work too.
Now I have to factor the time it took a trained engineer to design this 😭