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The Curse of FDM printing...Well One of Them at Least

1/22/2022

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I need some way to store my growing collection of flex steel build plates for my CR10S Pro, so I designed the thing above.  It looked cool I thought, and should store several plates safely.  I even thought that maybe with the 0.6mm nozzle I could get it down to a reasonable amount of time (I told myself).  Well I probably knew I was lying to myself if I thought this print could go under a day, but I rolled the dice, and Cura popped up a day, 19 hours and 1 minute to print that beauty.  It will also take half a kilo of material, so I'm gonna pass. 

But this experience did give me some ideas on a more modular approach to this problem, which would take a more reasonable amount of time to print (each part).  Hopefully I can get rid of all the supports too and give it a nice surface finish.  So it's back to the drawing board, since I'm not into multi-day (or even full day) prints for various reasons.
Update - I couldn't leave this alone and re-designed it from the ground up.  I'm thinking I may be able to cut down on the print time further, but the longest plate in this model (the base which has a lot of solid areas) will take about 12 hours, while the leaves are about 6 hours each.  I think it can probably be cut down further since I can boot the speed since it is flat. 

I'm still not sure though if I will tackle this print since it will take several days and I already have things going on, but will add this to the list.  I need to get a safe storage solution for my build plates though...
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