3D Printed a Dog for my Niece

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Early last month I 3D printed a cat for my sister. My sister loves cats. I don't know why. Fortunately my niece has better taste and has resisted the cat propaganda. We know the truth: dogs are clearly superior to cats.

The puppy design I 3D printed is from Thingiverse and was posted by user skateDesigns. Who's a good boy under a Creative Commons CC-BY license? This puppy!

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The Tronxy slicer program was incredibly inaccurate when calculating the ETA of the print. It ended up taking over 4 hours to print with a 20% infill.

I used the default 50 degree or higher overhang value for supports and there was quite a bit of support in the front of the model.

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Who let the dog out? I did by removing the supports after the printing was complete.

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I liked the result so much I printed another one so both my niece and I have a copy.

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My Thingiverse account: https://www.thingiverse.com/holovision/designs
My Thangs account: https://thangs.com/Holovision
3D printing community on Hive: https://peakd.com/c/hive-103035/created

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These are fantastic and great works from you. There is nothing impossible for a creative mind. And that is the lesson i have derived from what you have created so far


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The prits looks awesome.
When you print the bulky items like the dogs do yiu fill the cavity inside also or they are hollow frok inside?
Just curious....
!PIZZA

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I appreciate your curiosity.

In the post I mention 20% infill. The "infill" is the plastic density of the interior of the printed model. 0% infill means the print is hollow and 100% means the interior is all solid plastic.

The way I had my slicer (the software that converts the .stl file from Thingiverse into G-code my 3D printer can run) settings was 20% infill with a grid pattern. The nozzle would extrude the melted plastic forming a line inside the print's boundary and then skip making four lines to then create another line. The layering is 0.2mm so every 0.2mm going up in the model's interior the grid formed is 90 degrees opposed to the grid below that layer. If the model of the dog was accidentally broken what you would see inside is a 3D square lattice of thin plastic lines with a density of 20% plastic and 80% air.

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Oh got the answers and meaning of 20% fill.
Thanks fot explanation.
Do yiu use the printing for comercial purposr also...

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That's a nice looking print man, looks like you've been getting the printer dialed in nicely, keep it up! :)

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Doing what you knows how to do in a big way has been the reason why i love your works. The lesson behind the work is what i really want people to learn from it and hold that as well

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