5015 Army Ant Duct For Anycubic Predator

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This duct will not work with all 5015 fans, the fans I have barely fit in the gap between the arms. I am using SoundOriginal 24v fans that are 14.70mm wide, and the fan is inset into the housing by 1mm meaning that I only needed 13.7mm of clearance for my fans to fit and the space between the arms which is for me about 14.3mm when the arms are rotated to the point where the gap is the smallest. If your fans don't fit I am working on an alternate design that should be compatible with both 4020 and 5015 fans with a 5015 to 4020 adapter.
These slice fine with Cura using a .4mm line width. Slic3r and PrusaSlicer have issues with 1.3 and 1.4 so I've tweaked them slightly so it doesn't have holes on the outer wall with detect thin walls enabled(internal stucture does not slice correctly without it enabled) and have added 1.3.1 and 1.4.1 to fix that problem
Version 1.3 is the single screw version, 1.4 is the dual screw version. Personally prefer the dual screw version since it's a bit more rigid.
Discontinued 1.0 and 1.1, they were a bit off center, and not compatible with my bed level sensor housing. 1.2 never got past the test fit phase as I goofed up the measurements a bit.
You can use standard PC fan screws, m4 or #8-32 screws that are 3/4"(19mm) long to mount the fan, the holes are just small enough for the m4/#8 screws the thread in, the PC fan screws will take a bit more effort but I was able to screw them in on my test print.
This duct will prevent the stock bed level sensor from being mountable, but I have made a new bed level sensor housing design to accommodate for this.
Modify your printer at your own risk, cooling system changes may cause clogs.
These are based off of my version 4 experimental fan duct design: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4060401
Here's a link for my bed level sensor housing: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4101844