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print in place mechanical container.

How I designed and printed it:

video of operation:

I printed this at 20QUALITY in prusa slicer and it worked fine. It was really stiff for the first couple times but loosened up pretty quickly.

You may need to work it back and forth the first time to get the leaf mechanisms to all break loose.

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mechanical container - print in place expanding iris

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expanding iris cylinder box.3mf

expanding iris cylinder box.3mf

orientation and multi object fixed expanding iris cylinder box.stl

orientation and multi object fixed expanding iris cylinder box.stl

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