Let’s see it’s close to thanksgiving, and henry has a pun title, must be time for the annual thanksgiving place-card make post. This year I decided to go 3D printed and make a fun semi-functional print for name cards. While I could have done this as a multi-material print, I simply printed the 3 parts and glued with 3D Gloop.
Concept: Pumpkin pie containers with names on each one
Source: Here free on printables
First prototype:
It looked OK but wasn’t as thrilled with the look of the pie filling (too orange):
Found this cool orange from Protopasta (technically mango smoothie colored)
On my Prusa XL banged out 30 of the crust boxes (they’re all identical) and then had the mk4 cranking 3 of the fillings at a time (each customized). The text is added in prusaslicer to a depth of 1.25mm as I found much deeper gets hard to read. Also since the filling prints upside down you are putting the text on the bottom (the text tool works fine and knows the object is flipped just click through the transparent print bed and everything works (alternately keep it right side up put the text the flip the entire part. For Example:
First off this is a great way to hide a small object, like put this is your fridge and nobody would ever suspect its not a real pie.
Most important learning from the project: While I have used HTPLA before, it turns out to be quite tricky to print with, and one of the key reasons I did not use it on the XL for the whipped cream to sit on top as a single print as keeping it sitting in a hot nozzle while the tools swap can cause jams, which is odd since regular PLA doesn’t suffer from that at all.
For time: the mk4 will crank a crust out in about an hour, the whipped creams are 4 in an hour and the fillings take an hour twenty on the mk4. The mk4 can only hold 3 slices at one time (they all printed in one job, these are just sitting there for scale (ignore the mess) and ignore these were in the original color before I got the darker one:
