The collected works of doguri

Recently acquired and Indigo2 workstation, but didn't have the foot stands. Since I had access to a 3D printer, I tried modeling one from an the actual foot that I borrowed from a friend.

After a quite a few iterations, it finally worked out.

Model files have been uploaded on Thingiverse.
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:246137

The printing bed on the 3D printer was the limiting faction on the width of the foot, its slightly smaller. Also, to save on filament, I lowered the height of the foot where the base touches the workstation. The longer slotted side of the foot sticks out a bit. This was done to make the part a little stronger. Now thinking about it, I probably could have made it flush without it becoming weaker.

Thought I share this.

Might start thinking about other items that could be printed :)



Here's some photos:



I used Maya to model the feet, since it was what I had access to at the time.
Its made from PLA.

Printed at 0.2mm layer height with 10% infill. Its pretty solid and weighs around 150 grams.
Just double checked the estimate on the low profile model. Its 183 grams.

It typically costs around $40 for 1Kg of PLA filament. (I'm sure it can be cheaper, just haven't looked) So its around 4 cents a gram.
At 183 grams its around $7 for each foot.
I used an Ultimaker 1 and it took around 8 hours :)