Glow globe
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This is a decorative globe. It has 12 holes in the positions of dodecahedron faces. Caps of various colors, hole shapes, and reliefs can be made and inserted into the sphere. Currently, the caps are held lightly by small bumps on the individual caps but the caps can be glued in place or the bumps and clearances can be tightened to provide more capture force. I only included 3 bumps per cap but you may wish to increase this to 6 or more larger bumps for safety in case one bump should fail for some reason. Originally (and in the Openscad program here, dodecaholes.scad), the main sphere was constructed quite small and then the STL file was expanded in the slicer by 800%. The holes were then measured with calipers and that measure was used to construct the caps in cappy.scad, somewhat smaller than the estimate from the hole rings in dodecaholes.scad . The caps program contains code for bare caps, for an embossed star or heart patterns, and for caps with holes of the same designs. Each feature is turned on or off with comment statements. G-codes and slicing was done with the voxelab (Flashforge) software "Voxelmaker" and compiled as g-codes. The main g-code file is included here is ~7,862,362 bytes on my Windows 7. Starhart.g contains code for a Creality or Voxelab Aquila type printer for an embossed heart and star. "capholestuf.g" has code for two caps, one with a heart hole, one with a star hole. There is no reason to make this but for fun!! Hence you can make the caps shown in the picture of different colors or glow-in-the dark, making two in each g-code compile, one for each pair of opposite holes on the sphere (hence the g-codes for two caps each.) Enjoy!! Many slicers today include a "duplicate" command. You could make all twelve caps at once though I would make just one cap until you test it. :) I have no simple way of testing other systems outside my house in a 30 acre field in Indiana, so tell me how it turns out :) Thanks...
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