All Weather Cyclist

From my favorite Sci Fi series, Aliens. Printed in MG Chemicals PETG in various layer heights. Baby xeno on the left.

The city demands that we now have signage in our back lanes indicating the house number. I thought I would draw something up using our official provincial grass, the Big Blue Stem.

The funny thing about 3D printing…you’ll never run out of applications. This is a super simple design but it turned out to be my most used print to date. I have been pressing 2 pots of coffee a day for at least 3 years with this plunger “knob” I drew up. I printed a couple of variations in height and sphere diameter before I felt it comfortable to use.

What might look like a pyramid is actually a vase! This was printed with MG chemicals Copper PLA. A single line starts at the base and very slowly spirals up the z axis in a continuous thread. This is called “Vase” mode. Some models lend themselves easily to this type of print, but this is a great example of how complicated things can get when you throw in a fractal pattern.

Each one of these “triangles” is still separated from one another other. It is hard to explain, but you can still pull the model apart.

I thought about the font and layout for about 2 weeks before coming up with this. A bit of a messy layout, but the canvass tool in Fusion 360 really made this part go a lot smoother that it could of eye balling coordinates vs the knots in the wood.