Flashforge Creator Feet by shergott

Last crawled date: 3 years, 1 month ago

After finding lots of replicator 2 feet then realizing they would fit I decided to just reuse the concepts and create my own in Solidworks.
Following the sleek clean lines and minimalist approach for the creator... And asking myself: "What would Frank Lloyd Wright do?" Square feet are clearly the only real design choice.
As well as allowing the feet to keep within the perimeter of the case for those who may be inclined to slip it next to a wall.
Left as an exercise: I considered making the feet spring loaded to offer better vibration protection. My thought was put an appropriate compression spring (5/16 or 3/8" diameter?, 1"-2" long?) over the bolt, between the foot and base, and to move the nut from within the foot base to on top the base. The nut would then be tightened to load the spring accordingly, yet still allow the foot/leg to float. Getting the printer level would take more effort since height adjustment once installed is not likely possible as the nut will spin free. If anyone tries this, I would be curious to know if it worked and helped dampen the vibration.
All parts are in separate files since its much easier to combine things to print than separate multi-part STL files.
Solidworks design files also included.IMHO multi-part STL files are only useful if you want to control edits and reworks to those models; which makes such models less useful to useless