I have designed a 3D model of a Victorian style hurricane lamp. It holds a battery-powered tea light.
It comes in a number of pieces and screws together. You can have it either tall or short. This is part of an experiment for myself to show that Blender can be used for models that require some precision work. The threads were built in OpenSCAD using the library by aubenc, but the assembly and design was done in Blender alone,importing the threads when needed. This model was also designed to push my printers further regarding clarity and overhang. None of the pieces require support to print.
Here is the first test print all in blue, but I am printing it again in green and gold.
I used my Ordbot with blue 1.75 PLA. The Ordbot has a .35 nozzle. The base, the castle bit and the tea light holder were all sliced with .15 infill using a honeycomb fill pattern. The shade is a solid model which I printed with no infill and no top and bottom. The large swirly bit had a .1 infill with a rectilinear fill pattern. Temps for this PLA were 215 first layer and then 210 after and for the bed 55.
Mmmm Interesting I have a 3Drag and I use 3mm PLA filament with 0,5mm nozzle and I see that your result are much more fine smooth and detailed than mine. I’m still trying to figure out which is the best slicing setting to use and also about the speed of printing.
I normally set the first layer temp to 205 and than 200 for the rest and plate 60. Do you use this temp to increase the attachment of the object to the plate?
