Jewelry Hand by MakerBot

Jewelry Hand

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Published on November 13, 2009

This thing was Featured on April 20, 2010

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Jewelry Hand

by imaterialise

Description

I cleaned up the hand and made it suitable for printing on a makerbot. Its smaller and I removed the hollow insides to make it more solid.

Update: I also removed the dish that was holding the hand so you can print it even bigger.

Instructions

This one has some aggressive overhangs, but if you use the secret technique of propping up one side of your makerbot with some books, then it will print perfectly (see picture)

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LiquidBeef on October 27, 2012 said:

Hadn't thought about tilting the machine like that. Brilliant! Thanks you.

ftdesigns on February 13, 2011 said:

great job on the hand. and it's great for holding cigarettes (i mashed it with an ashtray).

namit on February 7, 2011 said:

Odd mine stuck together quite bad was not able to release any suggestions?

owenscenic on April 22, 2010 said:

Is there a way of making a mirror image of this STL file? then I can make left and right hands...

poindexter on April 22, 2010 said:

Would inversing X or Y (or maybe you'd have to do both) do it?

feilen on April 21, 2010 said:

Interesting idea with the overhangs. could you not make a way to attach motors to it to have it adjust the angle automatically?

Anonymous on November 15, 2009 said:

Are you sure that the books (tilting the machine) actually helped with this print? The effects of gravity (as in the RepRap in space blog post) are actually negligible. If not, this might be a useful technique after all...

Anonymous on November 19, 2009 said:

you should be able to print 60
Â° overhang without any problems ..

http://www.thingiverse.com/thi...

hoeken on November 15, 2009 said:

this is different from the upside down technique adrian was posting about. the problem is that the thumb overhang is about 60deg. when that part gets printed there's no plastic from the previous layer directly underneath it. this hack changes there 'down' direction so that it is in line with the previous layers. since the rest of the object is essentially vertical, all the other things still print fine.