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Paint Stand

Project Description

Elizabeth wanted to remake her paint stand to something more sturdy. So I 3d modelled and printed it.

Materials

  • Material: PLA (plastic)
  • 3D printer: Bambu X1 Carbon

Images

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CAD Software

I made an initial design with Fusion360, but noticed that I cannot save my designs locally so I look again to alternative sources.

Redesigned in code based modelling via python/build123d.

The print issue that I ran into was the printer I use (Bambu X1 Carbon) has a 256 cm^3 print bed and the given length was 280 cm :(. So for the redesign I added a gap in the middle so I can cut it into 2 or 4 pieces to be printable.

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However, with the new dimensions based on relationship math to the holes. The length dimension "happened" to be exactly 256 cm :), and I removed the middle gap and it fit perfectly without needed to split the CAD model.

Source Code

Code used to generate CAD: github.com/ab12gu/paintstand.py

Dimensions (mm)

Part Length Width Height Location
Holder 280 254 230
Large Tubes 64 26 Top Row
Small tubes 51 19 Bottom Rows
Large Tubes 25 51 127 N/A, by Chatgpt

Drop by roughly 1 inch

Number of Paint Tubes

  • 5 rows total
  • 3 large tubes on top 2 rows
  • 5 small tubes on bottom 3 rows

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