A cousin asked if my 3D printer could replace some figures gone missing from their old Fireball Island game board, a classic apparently coming out in a new & improved version.
Fortunately, solid models exist on Thingiverse:
Unfortunately, the left arm requires support, which Slic3r supplies with great exuberance:
The vast tower on the figure’s right side (our left) seemed completely unnecessary, not to mention I have no enthusiasm for the peril inherent in chopping away so much plastic, so I replaced it with a simple in-model pillar:
The pillar leans from an adhesion-enhancing lily pad and ends one layer below the left hand, with all dimensions and angles chosen on the fly to make the answer come out right.
Works like a champ:
The dark band down the middle comes from the Pixel’s shutter.
They emerged with some PETG hair, the removal of which I left as an end-user experience.
I mailed a small box containing figures printed in my (limited!) palette of four colors, some spares Just In Case™, and a few QC rejects showing the necessity of lily pads.
Game on!
The OpenSCAD source code as a GitHub Gist:
| // Adding support under Fireball Island figure arm | |
| import("/mnt/bulkdata/Project Files/Thing-O-Matic/Fireball Island/Fireball Island figure - 100k.stl", convexity=5); | |
| translate([6.5,-4.0,0]) { | |
| intersection(){ | |
| translate([-10/2,-10/2,0]) | |
| cube([10,10,11.6],center=false); | |
| rotate([0,-5.0,0]) | |
| rotate(180/6) | |
| cylinder(d=4.0,h=30,$fn=6,center=true); | |
| } | |
| translate([8/4,0,0]) | |
| rotate(180/6) | |
| cylinder(d=8,h=0.2,$fn=6); | |
| } |
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