Update: 3D printable SteemIt Award - Revision 3, final

in #steemit8 years ago

Got some feedback from @Cryptos about some aspects of the first 3D printing model. Mainly tried to get around the thin parts , allthough there are still some left that might be tricky. Depending on the material you getting it 3D printed in, it might be scaled down even more. Though I think do not below 62%.

The orginal design is now at a height of 60 millimeters with a robust foot part, of about 3 mm heigh. Soft plastics might bend a little I guess. Printing at I Materialise dot com is a bit more expensive with the rev3 version. More cubic millimeters of material, higher price, it is more solid and that has it's price. But still, plastics do give a nice price, and is ceramics quite low.

If I would make another one I think it would be a lot different. But this is it for now. If you want to get the STL file, you can download it from my BOX and use it under Creative Commons BY SA license. In effect free to use, even commercially.

Have a nice Steem!

To download the Final SteemIt Award revision 3 STL file click here.

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Hi! oaldamster
Your job is very great.
We believe can contribute to that wheel of Steemit spreads.

Thanks!

Well, is would be nice if it could work like that, to add a value to SteemIt.

You're welcome
So really realize, consider or can not be something to me also.

It might, give it a try!

Great, now it should be easy to scale it up if you want it bigger, but I don't think anyone will want to print smaller than the original size, otherwise it will become harder to print and you might loose the small details. I'm giving it a go later today, first without support material to see if will manage to print well and then if not maybe add manua support at only a few key places that might be problematic.

Agree, best to keep it at this scale, or scale it up. Kept the upstanding 'wall' allready at a minimal 2mm thickness.

Hope it will print without support, am curious about the result, good luck printing.

And if it gets printed, you are the first one to deserve the Award. ;-)

Also for your real 3D printed Tokens: https://steemit.com/steemit-token/@cryptos/3d-printing-some-more-steemit-tokens-you-can-3d-print-your-own

No going well without support material, second try with some manual supports and a bit lower printing speed.

Pitty, can you later point out where you experienced the the spots that went bad?
So I can adjust later designs.

Thanks for experimenting!

Pretty much anything that is horizontal and sits in the air is problematic without the use of support materl, if the length is small you can end up being lucky.

The bottom of the base plays nicely with support, but can go Okish even without, the lower end of the plaquet part on the left and right side definetly needs support.

Also the connection point between the base and the upper part is not that strong with the original scale, so it might break when you are removing the 3D printed part from the build plate... just happend to me a bit ago as I was not very careful.

So the next print is going to be 20% scaled up, this should make things fine along with the support, otherwise the detail level is good at 0.2mm layer thickness even at the standard size.

Thank you for the extended testing and feedback. Looks like there is still a lot to do for me in this particular design. Theory and practice do not always match up so easily.

Good luck with it, hope you manage to get some real Award out off it.

I'll be off now for a while.

you are the best i love it

Thanks @achim86, you are very kind!

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