Gear Lid - 12 Leaf Aperture Iris Box
Gear Lid - 12 Leaf Aperture Iris Box
3D
Published 2019-03-19T10:43:12+00:00
Included are two designs to give a steampunk/mechanical themed lid to the 12 Leaf Aperture Iris Box, if it wasn't steampunky enough already! You will need to have the base design already, and simply add these decorative doors in place of the original ones.
'Mech 1' and 'Mech 2' create a gear design with many concentric rings (mounted on to the yellow container) much like the 'hypnotic' design included with the main iris box files. This creates a spiral effect when opening the box.
'Mech 3' and 'Mech 4' creates the cleaner basic gear design as mounted on to the black container.
You can also mix and match the two files in each design to give more or less spokes for the gear.
The multicolour parts are achieved with a material swap at the appropriate height.
As with the base design, I recommend 0.2mm layer heights for the doors, and 0.1mm for the decorative tops if printing multicolour.
Try to avoid 'elephants foot' on the base of the parts, particularly the doors, as this can cause excess friction in the mechanism. Chamfers are included on the base of the doors to help with this.
Be careful when adding supports to the overhanging dovetails, to only support the outer part. The inner part can be bridged easily, and adding unecessary supports here will likely make it hard to remove them from your part (see original box page).
| Date published | 19/03/2019 |