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3D prints
Off the bed
Things I designed and printed on a Creality K1 Max, told the way they happened: what broke, what I thought it was, and what fixed it.
- written up
- 3projects
- on the printer, failed tries included
- 33h
- of plastic
- 912g
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No. 03 · updated
A life-size bat on a 30 cm printer
84 cm of red PETG, printed upright on a steel rod. Eight prints started, five stopped, and the barrel came out in three pieces.
- PETG
- 22 h 20 min printing
- about 680 g
- 8 prints started
- 84 cm
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No. 02 · updated
Three gel blaster parts from phone photos
A trigger, a magazine catch and battery end caps for a toy gel blaster. The first trigger fit nowhere.
- PLA and PETG
- 2 h 48 min printing
- about 40 g
- 11 prints
- 3 parts
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No. 01 ·
A Panamera in 44 slices
44 slices traced from the real car's numbers, two colours from one nozzle. The first print tore its own first layer apart.
- PLA
- 0.12 mm layers
- 7 h 37 min printing
- 192 g
- 2 prints, 1 stopped
The name on the plaque is pixelated, here and in the post.
Inspirations
Ideas I borrowed, and other people’s designs I’ve printed, outside the totals above. Each links to the designer’s page.
- Porsche Panamera GTS, parametric sliced car sculpturesynysthh · Cults3D · Cults private use (paid)The idea for my Panamera: a black car in slices on a red plate. Mine was drawn from the car's published dimensions and a side view.
- Full size baseball batMIHAI_T · MakerWorld · Standard Digital File License85 cm with an M8 rod through the middle. The idea of a rod through my bat came from here.
- Spiral Vase Roselytta · Printables · CC BYOne wall in vase mode, scaled to 130 %, 1 h 29 min. Printed as it came.