This was a request from my mom to give to my aunt who is now retired and recently a grandmother. I had to learn how to do boolean difference in rhino to cut things into an existing cell phone case blank from thingiverse. The text actually made this one of my most difficult prints yet. Took lots of tuning and aborted prints after the first few layers. But it was fun finding a way to represent a rocking chair using a combination cuts through the case, cuts partially through and then bridged, and utilizing the infill pattern to approximate the rest.
Nice job. She will probably think you bought it.
@Nuker_Bot_NukerBot_3 thanks. But if I was $/hr to make this I would be in the poorhouse. But each project is a trial to learn something new.
I am pretty sure these will be essential skills for everyone in the future, we just have a head start.
It is better to work for yourself by spending time making stuff like this than to work for someone else and give them all your money as far as I am concerned.
@Shauki acceleration is set at 9000mm/s2. Speed was pretty slow. 25mm/s first layer, 35mm/s on the rest of the back, 70mm/s on the sides of the phone. That’s one nice thing about Simplify3d, You can set different parameters at different locations in the model. I guess you could always spice different gcodes together, or hand edit to get the same affect.
Blenders interface seems a little over my head for now. Nice thing is Rhino reminds me of AutoCad. I would like to learn Blender… but time wise I have a few other projects that would come first.
@Shauki if you ever want to trial some gcode from simplify3d let me know. I just need your stl, any start and end gcode you want, and the settings you want to try (along with printer parameters) and I will slice it for you to try.
The biggest advantages of simplify3d in my mind are support generation, different settings by layer height, and slowed outermost perimeter for better surfacing.
Oh that look perfect!. If i had a grandma called Annie… 