I’ve wanted to try out vase models, and the Slic3r settings needed to make them. This vase in particular, I want to use as a pen holder. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) At 50% scale it’s a bit small as a pen jar, but it’ll work well as a…
Month: October 2017
1 Kilometer Printed!
A token to celebrate 1km of printed filament. Granted, I’m a few hundred meters beyond 1km at this point, but still. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) Simple design in TinkerCad compositing a shape generator (for shapes arrayed in a circle) and a few negative spaces superimposed upon a flat…
Ada Lovelace Game Token
As part of a school project highlighting non-white male scientists, the 10 year old decided to make a board game about Ada Lovelace. While the board was made with foam core, markers, glue, and printed text, the game tokens were an opportunity to flex some creative muscle. The 10 year old went through an iterative process to design a…
Sewer Dungeon – Print Thirteen
We’re building a dungeon. This is a project spanning lots of different prints, until we generate all of the tiles we need for the dungeon we have in mind. The prints are spread across: Summary – The Sewer Dungeon Print One – Sewer Corners Print Two – Sewer Tunnel Print Three – Corners and Ladders Print Four –…
Surface Infill Testing
One of the options you can play with in Slic3r changes the infill pattern used on the bottom and top visible surfaces of a print. Different from the interior infill pattern, the surface pattern changes the look and texture of horizontal planes. By default Slic3r will use a rectilinear surface pattern; simple parallel lines at a 45°…
Sewer Dungeon – Print Twelve
We’re building a dungeon. This is a project spanning lots of different prints, until we generate all of the tiles we need for the dungeon we have in mind. The prints are spread across: Summary – The Sewer Dungeon Print One – Sewer Corners Print Two – Sewer Tunnel Print Three – Corners and Ladders Print Four –…
Sewer Dungeon – Print Eleven
We’re building a dungeon. This is a project spanning lots of different prints, until we generate all of the tiles we need for the dungeon we have in mind. The prints are spread across: Summary – The Sewer Dungeon Print One – Sewer Corners Print Two – Sewer Tunnel Print Three – Corners and Ladders Print Four –…
Sewer Dungeon – Print Ten
We’re building a dungeon. This is a project spanning lots of different prints, until we generate all of the tiles we need for the dungeon we have in mind. The prints are spread across: Summary – The Sewer Dungeon Print One – Sewer Corners Print Two – Sewer Tunnel Print Three – Corners and Ladders Print Four –…