bed leveling test... by Shmoee

Last crawled date: 3 years, 4 months ago

yeah... that's it... a bed leveling test...
Fits on an Ender 5 without a skirt (build plate adhesion). "Curvy v2.stl" can be scaled up to 110% in the X and Y directions and still fit on an Ender 5 bed. A second copy will also fit.
I think the top layer looks better with a high "Wall Line Count". Try changing "Wall Line Count" to something bigger, like to a value of 25 in Cura.
If you want it to print faster for bed leveling, adjust the Z axis to move some thickness below the bedplate so it won't print or just scale down the Z axis. The default thickness at 100% scaling is 1.6mm. If you print one layer thick, I suspect they would also statically cling to glass or mirror... in case you want to class up the place...
Also I suggest enabling "Print Thin Walls" in Cura since there is a thin strand of hair in at least one case that appears to not print otherwise.
Inspired by:https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4719770
and SVG files from:https://svgsilh.com
My intention was to experiment with combining and editing several meshes at a time in Fusion 360. Experimenting with the meshes resulted in a few different variants.
I decided to simplify the OpenSCAD code from https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4719770 also to only convert an .svg file into an .stl file. I thought it would be interesting to include for educational purposes. I included some of resulting .stl files from the OpenSCAD conversions as well.
This is the entire OpenSCAD code that appears necessary to import and scale a .svg file (in this case a file called img.svg) at which point it can be rendered and then exported to a .stl file:
h=1.6;
scx=.2;
scy=.2;
scz=1;
scale([scx, scy, scz])
translate(v=[-30, 173, h/2])
linear_extrude(height=h)
import("img.svg", center=true, convexity=3);
Enjoy!