Hello all and thank you for checking out my post! I wanted to come to you all to show you a simple lifehack print I came up with. One of my first jobs was in the construction business where I was one of the designers, but what made my particular position unique is I was also part of the build team. It was spectacular to see the designs I came up with come to life. When it came time to move on from that job and go to college, I missed the feeling I had from the builds I used to complete. Thus I became attracted to 3D printing, and applied my design skills to come up with simple yet functional designs. Enough about me lets dive into this thing!
My current set up:
Printer: Solidoodle 4
Material: White ABS (1.75mm)
Software: Google Sketch up
Total Time: ~45 minutes
The design I am featuring in this post is a curtain loop/hook I took advantage of some thin wall mechanics to make a flexible loop to hold curtains open.
The settings I used for this are .1 or .2 mm layer height depending on the time you wish to spend on this. For my first few prints I did a 30% infill but to be honest this is probable not required (have not tested that) printed at a speed of 45 mm/s and I used Slic3r to slice the model. I also had to scale this model down to .6-.8 depending on how thick your curtains are.
Thanks for the interest in my story and this design! Here are a few links to check out if you want to see more of my work.
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[Thingieverse](http://Hello all and thank you for checking out my post! I wanted to come to you all to show you a simple lifehack print I came up with. One of my first jobs was in the construction business where I was one of the designers, but what made my particular position unique is I was also part of the build team. It was spectacular to see the designs I came up with come to life. When it came time to move on from that job and go to college, I missed the feeling I had from the builds I used to complete. Thus I became attracted to 3D printing, and applied my design skills to come up with simple yet functional designs. Enough about me lets dive into this thing! My current set up: Printer: Solidoodle 4 Material: White ABS (1.75mm) Software: Google Sketch up Total Time: ~45 minutes The design I am featuring in this post is a curtain loop/hook I took advantage of some thin wall mechanics to make a flexible loop to hold curtains open. The settings I used for this are .1 or .2 mm layer height depending on the time you wish to spend on this. For my first few prints I did a 30% infill but to be honest this is probable not required (have not tested that) printed at a speed of 45 mm/s and I used Slic3r to slice the model. Thanks for the interest in my story and this design! Here are a few links to check out if you want to see more of my work. https://www.3dhubs.com/orlando/hubs/next-step-print Curtain Hook by NSP3D - Thingiverse )Curtain hook.stl (385 KB)
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3DKEV
March 19, 2015, 9:04am
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Love your setup, reminds me when I had my 3D printer at home.
Welcome in the world of 3D printing, have fun !
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Nice one Alex! Keep up the good work!
Cheers,
AndyL
Pot8oSh3D
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Thanks for the warm welcome. I hope this post may inspire many more designs!
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Cool! Printing small and useful things is the way to go. Also, nice printer / making set up!
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Your thingiverse link doesn’t work
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I am sorry I have attached the STL to this post if you are interested in printing this.
No I w as just curious about your collection. I run a sd4 also
Alex, I love the idea! Will print it soon. I also like your printer, I have the same. Did you make any modifications on it? I’m about to use a better extruder (E3D) and some more light to make some 3D printing videos.
I also use a Raspberry Pi with Octoprint to control my printer.
I do not have any mods currently. I plan to upgrade my station a bit with pi and some other things. But I just got it to print with out watching it, still working out the kinks.
Oh, I see. If you have any questions connectiong a Pi to the Solidoodle, just let me know. I tryed Solidoodle’s Repetier Host for Linux, but couldn’t get it to work.
I am sure I will need some help when the time comes so I appreciate the offer. I would probably want to have some wireless connection to my computer so that I can use team viewer or similar to have remote access to it.
Great idea. I use it only via Wifi, but give a go on teamviewer too. Just let me know whether I can help you or not
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I only have a few up there right now. I should be adding more when I find the time
Luova3D
January 20, 2016, 6:49pm
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That is actually pretty useful. Could try flex filament for that
