3D Printing

This is fucking amazing!

Just a quick post to say Hallo!

Exploring Lemmy and this community is quite interesting.

Here's my Cat Entry Denial System or CEDS for short. Had a Problem with the Kittens crawling inside the Kitchen every time someone dared to open the Fridge.

4h ~~modeling~~ rapid prototyping in Fusion360 then 2 hours moving a Spool of PETG through a Prusa i3 MK3S+. 4 x M2.5 screws and a METOD ventilation grill.

It isn't perfect, but it does the Job.

Model found on Youmagine. Had to remodel it in #FreeCAD to scale it up and make the face details more pronounced.

The nose clip is supposed to prevent fog on eye glasses, but it seems too deep for my nose, leaving a gap. I still have to test this.

The strap that goes at the back of the head was hugely popular on Thingiverse (it was published back in March 2020). Its big shortcoming is that it tends to lower naturally on the neck, and the mask's elastics then rub against the top of my ears. I'm thinking of designing my own version with 2 widely separated bands, one that would sit at the nape of the neck, providing a stable resting place; the other higher on the neck. Also make the hooks more widely distanced to be sure to clear the ears completely.

I printed them at 0.40 mm layer height in ABS, my printer is old and slow.

Links to the objects: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4664699 https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4249113

STL file: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3031049 Made this quite some time ago, using Hatchbox Blue sparkle PLA

Printed (not by me) on a Creality Ender 3 V2 printer. 6 in / 15 cm in diameter, at 0.20mm layer height. I believe the print took around 50 hours.

Thanks to kicou for agreeing to this post!