Treefrog
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It's made purely for checking out the quality of your prints and therefore for personal home use, NO Commercial, please. If you intend to display this print result on photos/video/websites, Contact me about it. Thanks!
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due to a number of problems related to the past models, this one should solve every issue. Also should be able to print well even with lower settings. Let me know if further modification are needed!
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hi Morena P. i was wondering if you could post again the older versions of your frog.
frog_45.stl
This is my absolute #1 and only calibration object!
This is fantastic! And looks Awesome!
Thanks again for a great post :)
Thought you'd be happy to know I made one of these for my friend for Christmas :)
I love the treefrog... we print loads as calibration objects. They're especially cool in glow-in-the-dark PLA. Sliced at 0.04 in NetFabb they're gorgeous.
My first attempt was using MakerWare's high quality setting. That one, in yellow, had several imperfections in the frog's "skin".
My second attempt used the medium quality setting and this came out far better (in orange).
I have printed this on a MakerBot Replicator and posted close-up photos here: http://captainbodgit.blogspot....
Not sure if I'm getting anywhere near the quality that you would expect.
I took a look to the photos and did a quick read to your blog posts about the Replicator's quality, all my respect for your conclusion (Would I buy a 3D printer for personal use? ...No.).
From your comments and photos: I know you can do it better, the Replicator is an excellent 3D printer that can (easily) do much better than what you show to us in your blog.
Sorry if I look rude, it's not my intention, it's just a matter of English not being my mother tongue.
i am not able to print it in abs as the layers are not cooling fast enough making the print curl up on the edges and the hot end running into them.... i tried with .2 mm height and .35 mm nozzle...any suggestions
I printed this at 0.05mm (50 microns) just for fun. My first attempt at a picture this size. You can see the back in my I Made One! photo, and I'm attaching a picture that shows the belly pretty well.
Super cute!! One of those designs I know immediately I must give it a print.
Thank you!!
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Btw, this has been printed by bot1334, a Cupcake CNC, with home made hot-end and DC motor extruder, my settings where 0.3 layer height, 205 Flowrate and the Feedrate set to 24. Perimeter was two shells and 0.25 infill density. These settings are most probably only valid for this cupcake.
Thanks everybody for posting the pictures! Please, comment about the printer you used so other users can compare the quality of printers
Used a MakerBot Replicator.
I scaled up 50%, used two shells and 10% infill.
Unfortunately, one of the front legs cracked halfway through the print. I'll try again later with 3 shells and 30% infill.
Very attractive model.
Awesome model! The 45 deg one worked really well.
With just some minor modifications you could attach him to vertical surfaces to print, too. (like the side of a cup)
Thank you for the nice model :)
Feedback on print ability of the overhangs:
To test this I picked the Ultimaker's 'standard' quality Netfabb profile which has a 0.075mm perimeter layer height. As you can see in the picture, at this thick layer height the bottom of the legs and body are not perfectly smooth. However I think it is a more representative test for the layer heights that many home 3D printers routinely work at. I have found that often the quality of the overhang part of a print improves as the layer height decreases as long as the item is firm enough to allow thin layer printing.
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Hi, Morena P. I've tried hi-res printing (0.04-0.27mm) of your cute frog with my replicator2. Can I post pics of printing results in my blog? Thanks.