Hexagon Superfidget - 35 segment PIP design

This is a mesmerizing 35 segment print in place take on the "captured fidget" idea!
9h 12m
1× print file
0.20 mm
0.40 mm
76.00 g
Creality CR-10 V1
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updated August 13, 2024

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Printed the large one out for my partner and they loved it. They said they wish it would expand out super far in either direction though.

tried 3x adjusting settings, reading through comments and still unable to replicate what I see pictured. I'm certain some of it's me, so giving it a 3-star to share in some of the failure -- settings screenshot from Cura included

Awesome model. Printed perfectly.

I printed this on an anycubic mega X, I initially had issues with adhesion and adjacent hexes sticking together. Per recommendations on other print in place joint parts I increased the bed temp to 62°C and had a negative offset for resin expansion of -0.2 on intial layers, and -0.1 on the rest of the model. It printed perfectly after that.

it's wonderful and I got the tiny one to work, I just had my worst error yet when printing the big one
I have a flashforge advernturer 5m and used a higher base temperature of 62 and -0.1 z offset and a lower print speedI'm kinda new to 3d printing (2 months) and I don't even know how this could've happened please help me (edited)

same thing happen to me, I didn't check on it more than once after it was started and it was a complete mess, my worst error print yet

@CassiusVetra_2759778 ouch, my condolences
I’m still not sure how it happened to this day- I have some potential ideas but this mystifies me

I'm having trouble with this design, the overhang on the outer rings keep bulging out enough that when the ring starts going in again, it's not a sufficiently neat enough shape to get good layer adherence. First print failed, then fiddled with layer fine tuning, a bit of a subtle bulge, enough for the outer rings pop out as a result. I'm sticking to all the usual printer defaults that usually work well for fidgets etc, and each ring is just an outer wall (so two lines deposited) with the default outer wall width setting on the printer being the same as the 0.5x the width of the ring on the model which could be intentional.

Had some trouble at the beginning, but after reading some comments and adjusting some things it turned out great!

@MZBERG_2759266 what did you adjust? I also have an adventurer 5m and I'm having a lot of trouble getting the filament to stick to the bed on the larger one
I read almost all of the comments and couldn't figure it out and I'd rather not waste my tricolor PLA more than I have to lol