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Articulated Trilobite Feb 20 - March 6

Posted by Sublime 
Articulated Trilobite Feb 20 - March 6
February 20, 2013 06:52PM
It took me a while to decide on what this competition should be and settled on the articulated Trilobite by AuntDasiy [www.thingiverse.com] Its a great model and everyone loves to play with it. It feels almost alive.

The judging will be based on Quality of the surface finish and size (smaller the better)

I found the model has plenty of clearance to print at much smaller sizes and still snap together. I have printed it at 50% size and it works well and was easy to assemble (and take apart).






Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/21/2013 12:06AM by Sublime.


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Re: Articulated Trilobite Feb 20 - March 6
February 27, 2013 06:36PM
I'll start this off, I suppose. I have never been able to get around to printing a trilo before, so this contest was good motivation for me!

The body was printed at .27 layer height, and the head and tail were printed at .15 mm layer height. No cooling enabled, so the tail came out a bit wonky. It's scaled to 50% size.

Crawling over some calibration cubes

Halfway over!

Nearly there!

Good job, little buddy.

I'm gonna have to print more of these, they're quite fun!
Re: Articulated Trilobite Feb 20 - March 6
March 02, 2013 03:30AM
lol...
I just realised I only printed half the body...no wonder I had some issues getting the head to sit right......(stupid me..rtfi.. smiling smiley )
Have added some photos as well.

Body/tail 0.2mm and head 0.1mm
ABS but NO heated bed
ABS "slurry" on the table
Scaled to 50%

Cheers

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Re: Articulated Trilobite Feb 20 - March 6
March 07, 2013 05:25AM
Deadline is over and it is time to pick a winner.

PomeroyB has a well tuned flow but looks to need a little more tuning on the retraction.

IceMan has clean walls and I like the fact it is only half the size it should be with only half the sections.

So the winner is IceMan for his tiny ABS trilobite.


The prize is getting to select and post the next competition, thanks for playing.


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Re: Articulated Trilobite Feb 20 - March 6
March 13, 2013 09:24AM
Hi..and WOW...just noticed.
Thank you!
Not sure what to pick so while I look around please feel free to suggest something.
Cheers
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