Tag: miniature

I have 3.5 floors printed!  And they go together!  With Stairs!

There are some problems:

	I forgot to cut a section out of the “concrete” that the family room sits on to make room for the stairs from the basement up to the family room. I also had a hard time getting the steps on the left to fit – I had to resort to my wife’s Dremel to cut some of it down to size.   (Incidentally, a Dremel doesn’t cut it, it selectively melts it via friction)
	I did not make the basement 7ft high like it really is.   Thus, the kitchen is than in reality – and the stairs are the wrong height. In this same picture, you can also see the problem I have with trying to get the stairs to fit.    The kitchen wall does not line up with the bedroom wall.
	I ran out of filament with 3 pieces of the bedroom to go.   If I had not made mistakes, I could have gotten the whole thing in a 1kg spool.   (In the pictures above, notice the bedroom has no upper section)

I have ordered a 2kg (5.5 lb) spool of white (“Studio Line White” from JustPLA.com);  With it I’m going to start over.  This time:

• Correct the basement height
• Put the stairs in from the start so they get “cut” correctly.  
• I want to reflect where the ground level is better.

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For this blog post, I snapped this tag:

https://github.com/sunnywiz/housejscad/tree/Post4

When I get time, I plan on making a how-to video – for my own benefit, since a year from now I won’t remember the details:

• How to create the blueprint
• How to size the blueprint to create the text overlap
• How to use the code to generate the STL’s
• How to use the Join libraries to make the pieces possibly fit each other
• How to use the Cut libraries to make things printable on my print bed and Plate them
• How to use the Microsoft / NetFabb Cloud service to fix the model
• How to use Blender to section the shells off into separate prints
• How I glued things together (as best as I have found so far)

(I live in Pewee Valley, KY, not Houston, TX)

This is the 1:48 scale print of the fourth floor.   The source is here:  https://github.com/sunnywiz/housejscad/tree/Post3  and the STL files you are seeing here are bedroom0.stl, bedroom1.stl, and bedroom2.stl.

Problem: The top half doesn’t quite fit the bottom half.   This is because the top half isn’t large enough to hold the shape together – when the roof prints, its warm, and as it cools, it wants to shrink, and so it wants to curve.  The bottom print wants to do the same, but the walls are large enough to prevent this from happening.

Solution: no-roof.  Which, my wife points it, is the way to go:  then you can easily play with the furniture inside.   The side effect of that is, in the current iteration, I won’t be doing top/bottom alignment tabs (similar to the “cross” thing on the left side of the picture). 

Otherwise, the 1:48 scale is working well.  Here is the same bottom half, but with Victorian doll furniture inside it:

The checkerboard at the bottom of the picture is also working well as a place to glue things.  Here it is glued to the next piece:

Pretty proud of it so far!