Printing a red Statue for the Bamboo Skewers Cube Second

In Blender I made an update for the Male Statue.  For this print I have defided the mesh in 3 parts.

This will be a long print.
I started with the base. The item which will go into the centrepiece of the Cube. Here is the top of the item.  I turned the item around in Cura.  It will be clear in the end picture.

 And here after 2:27 hours of printing. And 92% done.

And after 2:53 hours it was ready. But with a little fault.

The last image shows that the toplayer wasn't done properly. But luckely this part is not visible.
And the item fits very good in the centrepiece.  There is only little movement posible.

Next day I started printing the bottompart of the statue.  It will be about 8 hours..

And after 8:09 hours it was ready but with the sample mistake as was made with the bottompart. In general I am very satisfied with the print.  It is very smooth on the outside. Different layers are hardly visible.  The problem was the toplayer  which wasn't complete closed.

 It won't be a big problem because the toppart of the statue will be glued on it.

And this is a preview of who it will be in the end.

The next day I started the print for the toppart. The print after 4:50 hours of printing and 41% is done.
It looks very good..... but then

problems started with the extrusion.  It was 100% what came out of the printhead.. It was clearly underextrusion... In the image below you can see that clearly on the right side..  This image is after 6:26 hours of printing and 60% done... 

One reason why this problem occured could be the cold weather today... Windy.... I already turned the radiator higher... Maybe the liquid plastic cooled a little bit and didn't came out normally.  Allthough the temperatur stays ok around the 205 degreeds and the feeder isn't giving trouble....

And it went worser.
Here is the print after 6:39 hours of printing and 63% done.

The toplayers are not done and the nozzle is moving in the air... So I had to stop the print...

Almost 7 hours waisted.........

Now production of corner elements.

This morning I wanted to start printing the triangle corner elements with a Sky Blue Filament from ColorFabb.  But again I had a lot of trouble with this one.  220 didn't work so did 205 degreeds. Also some alterations in speed didn't do it.  I gave up on this filament and started a new one.  Traffic Red from ColorFabb.  Right at the first print it went ok.

Temp: 205, Print speed 45,  Infill speed 35,  outer and inner shell speed 45.
Here is the print after 1:24 hour and 90% was done.

And after 1:29 hour it was ready.

And here where 4 elements have been printed.   It works good.  Now I am printing the last red one  and then I have to clean the elements of there support  residue.

Finally in the afternoon all 4 are ready. The perspective in the next image looks odd but it is due to my position.  The object isn't as stabil as it was with the skewers Cube.  But the challenge was to make those corner elements with the right angles..

A couple of day later I cleaned the items of their support residue and shortened the bamboo skewers to 10 cm each.  It looks quite nice now..

Final corner design triangle?

I redesigned the corner element. The base is a cube. 
Here is the design in Cura.

Total printing time was 1:29 hour.   I only need 4 pieces.

Another attempt for a triangle.

The corners here are better.  But the design is not nice. It is made out of cylinders. I couldn't use the subdivision modifier. It produced an even worser effect.  I will redesign it again with cubes...
  The printing time took 1:55 hours. 

Making a Triangle Shape

I have made a cube with bamboo skewers.  Why not try a triangle?
In blender I created a first corner element.   It is based on a cube.
This is the item after  1:42 hours printing and 89% is done.

After 1:49 hours the element was ready. The print went well.

Something with the angle is not right. It is less then 60 degreeds.  I have to redesign the element.

Test Paperbox.

I want to make a box that looks like a paperbag.  I designed in Blender a simple box.

It was created out off a cube without the topface.  I added a solidify modifier and made a thin innerwall of 1 mm. 
In Cura I  kept the settings for the previous box.

The print started ok.  A nice bottomlayer and the walls looked good. The inner and outerwall were connected because there was no space between them. That is why I could keep the Fill Density 0%.
But after about 1:40 hours there was an under extrusion allthough the feeder gave no problem. The filament wasn't grinded.   I had to stop the print...

Test: Only Shell printing.

I wanted a cube with only the outer shell and no infill in it.
In Cura I did some settings changes.

The Bottom/Top thickness is one setting.  This way I am not alowed to change them independently.


It works.  This is the print after 21 minutes and 40% done.

I stop the printing before it was finished. I had to do this either way because I could not find the settings in Cura to skip printing the toplayer which would close the cube. And in this case make a complete mess of the print.

Input for the Bamboo Skewers Cube Second

I designed a little in between piece for a statue on the Bamboo Skewers Cube Second.  It is designed in Blender and I used the sculpting tools for this.  This way it looks more organic as the rest of the cube.
The printing time took 1:58 hours.  It is 5.7 cm in height.

AC

On internet I found this item. An  A with an C incorporated. On pictures and in Blender it look great.   The support material makes is messy on the downside. The balance of the item is to the back. It was just a fun print.  It took 2:31 hours to print.  It is 5 by 5 cm. 

The middle pieces for the bamboo skewers cube.

I could create quick a middle piece and test printed it right away.  It looks good.

The print took 1:11 hours. It is 4.5 cm in height and 3.3 cm wide.

 And it fits good in the construction.

There is allthough a problem. The opening on top of the item is to small. After two pieces printed it is always to small. So I redesigned the object and enlarged the top opening by from 3.3mm to 3.46 mm. That should do it.

After 1:02 hours the print was ready. And the hole is just big enough.  Again I measured in the blender preview file the distance from that piece to the centerpiece. The skewers have to be maximum 8.5 cm long. 

The next day I started printing more middle pieces.  After 6 pieces done the cube looks like this.

And here after 10 pieces are ready.....   Still 2 to go.

And here finally after a whole day printing all 12 middle pieces are ready.  2 middle pieces to print took each time about 2:04 hours printing.  Together they took about 12:30 hours to print.  What I still have to do is cleaning them with the dremel.
Measures for the skewers: side skewers                                                  15   cm
                                           middle skewers(middle to centerpiece)        10.7 cm
                                           corner skewers (corners to centerpiece)         8.5 cm