3D Scanning and Printing

I consider this week to be one of my favorites, I learned how to use scanning and 3D printing and this has always been a topic that has caught my attention because I consider it very easy to get an idea and materialize it in a different way such as in the different types of materials that can be printed.

One advantage I consider about 3D printing is that it does not require much investment or complex machinery to create almost any idea that one has and wants to bring it to the real world as are other methods to model and prototype something.

3D Printing

For my 3D printing I want to make a cat toy, the idea is to do a “prison” in the shape of a ball, and inside there is a small ball that weighs with the bottom of the prison so the piece is always standing up this will be helpfull for the cat to play more comfortable, the measurements I have planned to use is 55mm x 55mm

3D Design

First to start the fusion design, I created a square sketch with the measurements 5mm x 5mm that represents the thickness that the bars will have and then, I revolutionized it in the x axis

As a next step, I made a circle on the y axis and create a pattern of the barrots

Finally I made the ball inside with a diameter of 30mm

We export it to stl format and then open it in UtltimateMakerCura

3D printer

Finally I made the ball inside with a diameter of 30mm

The printer used was an Ender-3 S1 Pro 22x22x27cm using the following specifications

Extruder temperature: 215°
Temperature bed printing: 60°
Infill: 20%
Print speed: 100%
Print time: 1.15hr

Print Settings

Slicer in UtltimateMakerCura

Let's go to the printer

When you insert the SD memory and select the file that we are going to print, the printer will start a preheating with the parameters already mentioned before, once the appropriate temperature is reached it will start to print the piece