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Building Parallyze's Grid Clock v2

1/8/2021

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I needed a clock and found the Grid Clock V2 by Parallyze at thingivsere which looks perfect.  This is one of those designs where it is clear that a lot of effort went into making it not only look great, but also work great.  I wish I had half the talent to design and document things like this.  He also provided some time saving tips on print settings which I used and can confirm really make a big difference.  After printing a few parts, I did notice a few things I wanted to modify when I print my clock though.  So I am printing a very slightly modified version of his design in the XL size, and plan to upload a remix when it's done.  The only changes are to square off the ends of each section so they can be glued together (since I wanted it to be almost seamless) and also to add some inserts to the front to allow some cool design patterns to be inlaid (which are really just blocks printed as support).  I got that idea after looking closely at the pics on the original and noticing that he printed the first layers with some wide gaps between lines which gives the front a grill like appearance, which I really like.  I could not figure out how to do that in Cura however, so I instead designed some inlays which can be printed as supports and will give a similar look.
The remix will not be a simple print though, since it requires a good deal of knowledge of Cura, but I hope to be able to make something of a guide to help people with the settings. 

Additionally, I really liked onecton's "make" of the clock where he said he used a layer of PLA printed in black as the diffuser, along with a piece of paper.  I'm working on something similar, but want to carry though the pattern from the front to the diffuser as well and have printed a few diffusers which I hope will work without adding paper behind them.  In the process, I also found that I can print PLA on laser printer transparency film, which worked well but can imprint from the printed item so it will only be a rarely used trick I think.  The diffusers are really a combination of 3 parts merged together, the first is a frame, then a 0.1mm thick solid layer, and above that a 0.2mm layer printed as support which provided a pattern.  Everything was then printed at 0.1mm resolution and I used the Cura Z-offset plugin to increase the z-offset by the thickness of the transparency film which was taped to the bed (0.2mm thick).  Then I printed as normal with a bed temp of 50°C and the print did start to lift, but being really thin it will not matter once it is sandwiched between the other parts of the clock.

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