Gothic Cathedral Play Set
Description
Are you intimidated by the centuries long construction schedule, and the punishing job requirements of being a European Bishop during the Dark Ages?
Then We Have a Thing For YOU!
The Gothic Cathedral Play Set!
Instructions
The full model pictured here is made up of 20 parts.
It is not an exaggeration to call this the Mount Everest of MakerBot prints. The overhangs and arches are designed to be right at the limit of the machine's unsupported capability. I have a similarly sized 'cathedral of failure' from all the times the extruder knocked the build platform off.
But, if you can make it to the end, boy what a story you will have to tell.
(Update) I am happy to see people like the Gothic Cathedral Play Set and am looking forward to seeing pictures of other peoples copies. I have posted more details and configurations on the CCCKC Blog, the Kansas City hackerspace I belong to. blog.cowtowncomputercongress.org/
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Hi I'm trying to print a large object and it is warping and cracking. I'm using an aluminum build surface with kapton tape and I'm printing with 3mm ABS.
I saw RobG's post there about the extruder tension screw (gonna print that asap) had that problem last night
I am basically printing a 10cm^3 cube what should I set infill to be and layer thickness, resolution etc? Anything else I need to adjust? Do I need to print in PLA? Temperature? Wait ti
me between layers? Do I need a fan like in RobG's post? Do I want to cool the ABS quickly or do I need it to stay hotter longer IE build a fence around the cube?
Thanks!
This is a beautiful design, and definitely a challenge. My personal 'cathedral of failure' is serving as the inspiration for a number of mods on my TOM. For example:
To get the fine detail I went to a 0.16mm layer thickness and a 1.5 w/t, giving me a 0.25mm resolution. That required having the platform extremely level to do a successful raftless print. http://www.thingiverse.com/thi... makes that easy
The fine detail really extends the print time, so I ne
eded to make sure that the extruder tension screw didn't loosen up during the overnight print. http://www.thingiverse.com/thi... solved that one.
Getting the tall, narrow structures to print without sagging required active cooling. My TOM now has a ducted cooling fan http://www.thingiverse.com
/thing:5756
Thanks for your wonderful contribution, and to everyone else that makes this such a helpful community.
I just finished building my Cupcake, and have started building this set (did two test prints first, they actually worked. Wow.)
How many of which parts do I need? If it's on the page, I'm not seeing it.
skimbal, your design was featured on Bang goes the theory on BBC 1 UK this evening - http://www.flickr.com/photos/2... for creen chot of bbc iPlayer
How much ABS did you use? Will Thingaverse ever list the amount of ABS as a required tool? Maybe this can be computed somehow from the data file? I am also wondering how this translates into how much cost to print it out.
damn you got a detailed thing here!
but u have a quite extreme oozebanning problem. my mendel keeps doing those nasty strings too within one part. i couldnt figure out how to reduce it yet.
This is terrific! I'm about halfway through printing this (now I have oozebane very well dialled in...).
However, seeing photos of Siena and Genoa cathedrals makes me think that I want to do it all over again - check out Google Images of those buildings, and you'll see why: perfectly feasible to get that effect with a Makerbot...
I would like to BUY this object to show the capabilities of 3d printing.
Can anyone print one for me and send it Italy?
Thanks,
pittarello.filippo@casaleggio.it
Not sure my system or I are capable of this. But would love to assemble a model like this. Wonder if such sets are commercially available?
You are AWESOME! I was just thinking last night how cool it would be to print a gothic cathedral and here one shows up. Are you reading my mind? ;)
The evolutionary next step is this "dome shaped" nest: http://asknature.org/strategy/...
from here:
http://asknature.org/search?ca...
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All week I've been like blah blah blah, nothing exciting on Thingiverse, maybe the Makerbot isn't that versatile after all..
then this. A fucking goddamn work of art. Absolutely beautiful.
I'm speechless. I MUST get my Makerbot back in order and print this. With some black paint and UV leds, this is going to be legendary!
When I saw the thumbnail of that photo, I thought "another print that you really can only do on an expensive Dimension machine".
/Superlative/ cheers for this one. Exquisite in the extreme.
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What kind of software did you use to make this?