Quickie print for Mother's Day

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Jules
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Quickie print for Mother's Day

Post by Jules » Thu Apr 23, 2015 12:27 am

Just in case anyone (besides me) has trouble coming up with ideas, I knocked out a quick-print Lace Egg and just uploaded it to Thingie.......
lace_egg_1a.jpg
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Print it with the following settings to get the lace effect:

Top Layers: 0
Bottom Layers: 0
Perimeter: 1
Infill: 20%
Layer Height: 0.2 mm
Extrusion Width: 0.4 mm

And I threw in an assembly diagram. (You guys probably don't need it, but I put it in for beginners.) :)

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:788001

(The one I uploaded has a slightly flat bottom, and does not need a stand....I just happened to have one around.)
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Re: Quickie print for Mother's Day

Post by jereywolf » Thu Apr 23, 2015 11:45 am

That's really cool! A great gift for Mom.
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Re: Quickie print for Mother's Day

Post by Jules » Thu Apr 23, 2015 1:42 pm

jereywolf wrote:That's really cool! A great gift for Mom.
Thanks! :D
(Lace isn't my thing at all, but mom loves it.)
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Re: Quickie print for Mother's Day

Post by jimc » Thu Apr 23, 2015 3:13 pm

Came out really nice
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Re: Quickie print for Mother's Day

Post by Jules » Thu Apr 23, 2015 4:38 pm

jimc wrote:Came out really nice
Danke! :D
Also playing with the idea of turning it into a decorative night light, by bottom lighting it with an LED lamp. (But that is so not my strong suit!) Do they sell little pre-made setups for that kind of thing?
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Re: Quickie print for Mother's Day

Post by jsc » Thu Apr 23, 2015 8:10 pm

Search Amazon for "LED tea lights". Most have faux flame lights, but a few don't.
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Re: Quickie print for Mother's Day

Post by Jules » Thu Apr 23, 2015 8:30 pm

jsc wrote:Search Amazon for "LED tea lights". Most have faux flame lights, but a few don't.
Perfect! Ordered a batch of ten for something like seven bucks! Many thanks Jin! :D
Soon as they come in I'll work up a base.
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Re: Quickie print for Mother's Day

Post by Jules » Sun Apr 26, 2015 3:02 pm

I got my LED tea lights in yesterday, they don't put out a heck of a lot of light, but I do like the effect....
This is the little egg sitting on a rough shell base...
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I need to fiddle with attaching it to the base somehow, and definitely need to thicken the sides, (or go with a solid), since the Rhino shell default is a bit thin, but it gets the idea across, and I wanted to print a quick base first to see if I even liked it before spending a lot of time on it.
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Re: Quickie print for Mother's Day

Post by lem » Sun Apr 26, 2015 3:57 pm

Plug for MakerGear.

Upgrade to dual V4, print the base, switch extruder, print lace :roll:

Actually, looks pretty good to me.
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Re: Quickie print for Mother's Day

Post by sdigs » Mon Apr 27, 2015 6:05 pm

This looks great. I am going to make this and see how it works. I do think it looks great with a base, might look for some colored LED's
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