Snapple Tea Caps Paint Palette
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Over the quarantine, I’ve been learning/teaching myself how to paint some of the various TTRPG minis I’ve printed over the last year or so over on r/PAN. I don’t have much of a budget, so I’ve been using the caps off of Snapple Teas as paint holders, since they’re pretty inexpensive and easy to clean up. So as not to risk losing a loose cap in my work area, I mocked up this shell in Fusion 360 to hold 13 of them. Yes, better design would/should limit me to 12 - 2 cases of Tea per palette, but I’ve got enough caps saved up to make ~7 more (see Title). Plus, since the design is perfectly symmetrical, you could print 2 palettes and use one as a lid for transportation. This version was printed on a Creality Ender 3 at .15mm layer height in PLA. A note for those interested in modifying/remixing the included Fusion file - I made a slight mistake with the Leading Dimension's scale, and when I tried to make an applicable fix, Fusion continually crashed on me. To rectify the situation, I did the math (externally) and applied an appropriate X-Y scaling. This is most certainly not the "perfect" fix for the file, however when I printed it, it came out with everything fitting as intended. A note for those printing the file - I listed here that I printed this using a Raft. I print with rafts because my printer has a slightly uneven non-glass build plate and the raft will level the bottom of my print. Using Cura's standard settings for rafts, this piece will not fit on a Creality Ender 3; so I modified the Raft's "Extra Margin", decreasing it from 15mm to 2.5mm. With this fix, the file fit well on my build plate and suffered no adhesion issues. Another note for those printing this file - The Fusion 360 file makes use of zome zero-thickness areas where the circles butt up against one another. While something like this technically does make sense in a simulation and design software, it does not translate over to slicing and printing. These zero-thickness areas are left as gaps (where the size is most likely determined by the print resolution, though outside of my initial print I haven't done further testing), allowing the easier removal of the caps for cleaning or disposal.
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