Single Lithophane Lightbox 8x8cm

I was looking for some nice, easy to print, single lithophane boxes but couldn't find any.. So I decided to design my own! 💪🏻

I'll give this one to you all for free 😁

If you like this design, feel free to support me so I can keep creating new and better designs

This box is designed to fit a lithophane with the following dimension:

Height: 80mm
Width: 80mm
Border thickness: 4mm
Border width: 2mm

There is a clearance of 0.4mm calculated in the model. So with a lithophane thickness of 4mm it should slide in very easily.

If it doesn't, you should sand of some of your lithophanes elephant foot to make it fit ;)

The top of the box also has enough clearance to make a near perfect fit, but always keep in mind that every printer is different.. so you might need to tweak some of your settings to make it fit.

Box dimensions are:

90x90x60 mm

The box can easily be fitted with a little piece of LED light strip. The box has an 4mm opening at the back where you can pull trough the wires of the power source. I've used a LED strip with 60 LED/meter but for this box I only use 3 LEDs. I chose a USB-cable with dimmer as the power source so you can use it with a powerbank or a phone charger.

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Solder the wires to the LED strip, fit the led strip in the box, plug in power source and enjoy your lithophane lightbox 😁

If you've got any questions feel free to leave a comment!

UPDATE 1:

Added another box design with a 8mm opening in the back. You can pull a single color ledstrip trough it. So you don't have to solder anything if you don't like to 😉 just cut the LEDstrip and stick it to the box.

Printtime: 9 hours, 12 minutes
Weight: 98 grams

Layerheight: 0.2mm
Wall Line Count: 3 walls
Toplayers: 4
Horizontal Expansion: -0,3mm
Infill Density: 8%

Infill Pattern: Zig Zag

these settings worked for my printer

Print Speed: 45mm/s
Print Acceleration: 1500mm/s
Print Jerk: 5mm/s
Retraction: 6mm, 40mm/s
Combing mode: Not in skin