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Friday, 15 March 2019

Tinkering Again

I decided to 3D print a name sign for my home.
It is taking a few trial test prints to check my CAD efforts are producing what I need.
The sign will be made with seven individual letters.

Just working on the first letter at the moment.
I started with a letter height of 120mm with three holes for screws.
That was bigger than needed really and took about 5 hours to print.

DSCN9425

For a second test print I reduced the height to 100mm - much better.
Also at Adrian's suggestion I tried to make countersunk holes (middle red letter A)
Unfortunately I didn't get them centred over the holes and the slope was too sharp.

Back to TinkerCAD to try again.

Screenshot (2019-3-15 6.05.38 pm)

The holes are made with thin cylinders.
The countersinking made with inverted cones and nicely aligned after much jiggling.

Saved and the file loaded in Cura

Screenshot (2019-3-15 6.07.58 pm)

Reduced the infill to 8% and speeded up the extruder moves.

 DSCN9420

That brought the time down to 2h 45m
That print (in green above) looked much better.
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