Nautilus Earrings
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Published on November 9, 2011
This thing was Featured on November 14, 2011
Derived from
Full Nautilus Shell (project shellter)
by RichRap
Description
Whilst ruminating on Project Shellter, I was reminded of visiting seaside towns in Oregon as a kid and seeing necklaces and earrings made by running nautilus shells through a band saw... so, I fired up SketchUp and with the help of skimbal, created a set of earrings which will be a Christmas gift for a good friend of mine.
UPDATE: After talking to some female friends, they suggested the front should be closed, to avoid getting them caught in hair. I had planned on doing that anyway to make the part a little stronger, so now there's a closed version too.
UPDATE: After talking to some female friends, they suggested the front should be closed, to avoid getting them caught in hair. I had planned on doing that anyway to make the part a little stronger, so now there's a closed version too.
Instructions
1: Print.
2: Attach earring hardware.
3: ???
4: PROFIT!
2: Attach earring hardware.
3: ???
4: PROFIT!
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crazysocket
on
November 12, 2011
said:
i can't print solid like u did. i have fill on. but it's still looks like outline without fill inside. do u have any setting?
IWorkInPixels
on
November 14, 2011
said:
What version of Skeinforge are you using? I didn't have any problems on this one, but on some other things I've tried to print there's a bug in Skeinforge 35 that didn't fill in areas which are inside of others. Using SF 40 fixed it.
But before you do that, make sure your extra shells are all set to zero, and see if that helps. Turn on SkeinISO too, so you can preview the gcode before you waste a print.
mifga
on
November 10, 2011
said:
You came up with the need to make this and launched it within like 20min. That rocks!
License
Nautilus Earrings by IWorkInPixels is licensed under the Attribution - Share Alike - Creative Commons license.
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Aha! I had the same problem with double shells instead of filled shells.
Using SkeinForge-46, you need to go to the "Fill" settings and set all three of the "Extra Shells" variables to 0.
There is a bug in SF where if the extra shells don't fit in between two walls, it will simply not fill that area in.
End result -- picture will be posted as soon as the print is don
e -- are strong, single walled, filled, earrings.
Or, more specifically, this image shows the difference it made. The one on the left was sliced without adjusting the shells variable. It is very fragile and, frankly, kinda ugly. The ones on the right were SF-46 with the shells adjusted.