Christmas Twisting Ornament by TheBear

TheBear

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A1 mini

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Standard Profile - Less than 7 grams of filament!

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27 min

1 plate

5.0(9)

Smaller Version, only a little over 3 grams of filament!

Designer

18 min

1 plate

5.0(1)

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Description

Make sure to check out my Snowflake Ornament as well!

Ho Ho Ho, and a Merry Christmas!

Presenting the 6.7 grams Christmas Twisting Ornament! (Smaller version at around 3.4 grams is also available!)

Easy to print, easy to assemble and easy to enjoy!

After the extremely positive response to my Christmas Gift Bow, I got inspired to mess around with similar flat designs.

As I was playing around with designing something else entirely, I suddenly created something.. Different. It took my entire attention, and about 40 different test-prints and iterations.. Here we are!

Assembly

Assembly is done by grabbing the two opposite solid corners and overlap them with a twisting motion, lining up the two pegs with the holes and inserting them.
The tension will keep the pegs locked in!

Disassembly is simply reverse of assembly.
Since you can disassemble the ornament, it can be stored completely flat, taking up almost no space!

Tolerance/Print Settings

The tolerances for this print are quite tight (around 0.25mm). So, you have to make sure your First Layer is just right, and perhaps adjust your Z-offset, Flow Rate, etc. - You know, all the standard stuff to calibrate a printer.

If you experience that only the first layer is merging together, you may need to adjust your Elephant's Foot Compensation.

Bambu Printers

With a Bambu Lab printer, you should be ready to go by just hitting “Print”.
But please remember to check, if you have the correct Build Plate selected in Bambu Studio. For example, when having the Textured Build Plate selected, the Z-offset is automatically lowered just a bit, to account for the unevenness in the Textured surface. This might result in a too low first layer, when using a smooth plate.

If it still fails, do not worry!
I will be uploading a separate model with higher tolerances, within the next few days.

Merry Christmas and Happy Printing!

Yes, this final version of the model is actually quite simple in design - but that doesn't mean it just happened on the first try. Unfortunately…

Here are some of the latest iterations, before I got everything “just right”.

Comment & Rating (16)

@dekopuma

The print profile is no longer public

The locking mechanism works well

@Print4Gods

The print profile is no longer public

thx

@rodrigo.benenso

Looks amazing. Could it not be possible to have some clipping mechanism to avoid the need for glue?

The designer has replied

@TheBear

Thanks! I have been looking into some way of having a clipping mechanism - but it has been a bit difficult to come up with something that works at this scale. One main issue is also, that I'm trying to create a clipping/locking mechanism, that doesn't rely too heavily on tolerances to be 100% right, as that can be a frustrating experience for some. I do have a few ideas in mind that I haven't had the time to design and test yet though. So, hopefully in the near future, I will have something! One pro of the glue is, that you can decide how tightly, you want to twist the ornament. But I agree, not having to use glue definitely would be preferable :-D

@TheBear

You actually motivated me to work a bit more intensely on the clipping/locking mechanism, and I already have two different working prototypes. So thank you so much for this message! My schedule is a bit packed tomorrow, but I will probably be able to finish the design Saturday and post the new version here :-D This would also make storing the ornaments incredibly efficient, as you could store them flat - bonus!)

@TheBear

They seemed to work perfectly fine on my printer, so I've decided to upload them in their current state already. I also made sure to give you a shout-out for the motivation :-) Thank you, Rodrigo!

@johnfcooley

Print Profile

Standard Profile - Less than 7 grams of filament!

Printed well. Not my cup of tea but that's no fault of the design or the print profile. Thank you.

@tqone222

Print Profile

Standard Profile - Less than 7 grams of filament!

@Skullycandles

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Standard Profile - Less than 7 grams of filament!

@gregor.aust

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Standard Profile - Less than 7 grams of filament!

@belerophon17

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Standard Profile - Less than 7 grams of filament!

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@BlitzBolt

Print Profile

Standard Profile - Less than 7 grams of filament!

@meow0ninja

Print Profile

Smaller Version, only a little over 3 grams of filament!

License

This work is licensed under a Standard Digital File License.

You shall not share, sub-license, sell, rent, host, transfer, or distribute in any way the digital or 3D printed versions of this object, nor any other derivative work of this object in its digital or physical format (including - but not limited to - remixes of this object, and hosting on other digital platforms). The objects may not be used without permission in any way whatsoever in which you charge money, or collect fees.