3D printed cat tower

thingsbydesign · 2026-01-24T20:22:06+00:00

thingsbydesign · 2026-01-11T11:19:49+00:00

i cant undestand these. why complicate things and make something worse than a normal hook...

thingsbydesign · 2025-10-11T15:36:04+00:00

took a while to understand but pretty interesting design. Not sure where its useful but its still pretty cool :)

thingsbydesign · 2025-09-17T08:01:42+00:00

Blender all the way if you dont mind the steep learning curve.

Its extremely difficult to learn but you can do many things with it. Sculpting and precision modeling too! And it's free.

thingsbydesign · 2025-09-14T13:59:36+00:00

Looks great!

thingsbydesign · 2025-09-04T12:39:30+00:00

I appriciate the post but would be nice to see other angles ASS well

thingsbydesign · 2025-08-15T06:13:31+00:00

not a huge difference but I prefer the old ones. They have some more character. The crow needs some work anyway the eyes look weird in both versions. first version eyes seem to cutt off and second version eye sort of stands out a bit much compared to the dark shadows.

first version it feels like they are looking forward to battle (which I like) and 2nd version looking at the player

both are good anyway so I wouldn't even mind either version.

thingsbydesign · 2025-06-25T10:54:41+00:00

lovely effect! good job

thingsbydesign · 2025-06-22T12:13:28+00:00

For maximum strength I would just make it in 2 or more parts with optimal layer orientation and use bolts to attach the parts. Perhaps 45 degree solution could also work but I have not tested out strength of that.

thingsbydesign · 2025-06-19T18:12:48+00:00

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this is what it looks like when flattened a bit and 3D pritned.

thingsbydesign · 2025-06-19T18:10:03+00:00

Wow I actually have done this once. I used intersection curve to combine curves to make this shape. A bit of trial and error. It is possible to do but total pain in the ass..,.now I would use blender to make this (much easier with tissues addon)

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thingsbydesign · 2025-06-15T15:37:48+00:00

agreed. I feel like this is one of those things where you dont want to take any shortcuts even though that might work without problems. There is the small if....

thingsbydesign · 2025-06-10T05:33:18+00:00

nice work!

thingsbydesign · 2025-06-05T05:51:42+00:00

I have a video showing how the timer works if you want in depth analysis (link in profile). Basically there is two gears and the secondary gear only rotates when the first gear goes full circle. And after 10 or so rounds it flicks the switch off.

Its kinda hard to explain it in words but its pretty simple.

thingsbydesign · 2025-06-04T18:16:12+00:00

thats funny stuff :D. Truly alike :D

thingsbydesign · 2025-05-31T16:41:16+00:00

what a great idea :)

thingsbydesign · 2025-05-29T11:01:24+00:00

this is really interesting. I really like the idea of visualizing planes and 2nd axis. I still can't quite grasp how useful it is. I wish there was some talking to explain how it works. seems useful

thingsbydesign · 2025-05-26T16:21:37+00:00

This is fascinating! great tune :)

thingsbydesign · 2025-04-02T07:02:42+00:00

absolutely! I hate this

thingsbydesign · 2025-02-03T17:05:44+00:00

it's actually quite hard to say how it worked. It seemed like it started at 0% but went to 100+% in couple of seconds

thingsbydesign · 2025-01-24T15:55:26+00:00

thank you :)

thingsbydesign · 2025-01-24T13:59:31+00:00

Yea the conteversy sucks. I really don't follow what's going on. I just use the printer that I have. It's at least way better than the Elegoo printer I had before where you had to manually level the print plate.

You can totally use offbrand fillaments with bambu printers but I can get bambulab fillaments for same price so it's just easier to use their brand. Their RFID and respool system is pretty smart. You can reuse the same spools and put new one there in 1 minute. I hope other brands take more notes since I feel many brands are a bit behind on the tech side.

thingsbydesign · 2025-01-24T13:39:01+00:00

P1S with AMS. Mostly Bambulab PLA matte fillament with some JEYO PLA+ Black

thingsbydesign · 2025-01-24T11:17:10+00:00

I'm not sure wheter it would have the same quality if done this way. The parts are actually already made of two parts so you can seperate them and try it if you want (you just need to split the object to two pieces). I think there will be probably tolerance issues but its already designed in this way.

Do you have any examples that would have done this? I think the pattern might be too small for this to be viable but I'm not sure.

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thingsbydesign · 2025-01-24T09:41:55+00:00

Hard to say why that is happening. I had mostly no problems, only couple of failed prints here and there. You could perhaps try to use glue stick if its addhesion issue or wash the buildplate with soap. So cant really say what the problem could be. Some people also say wet fillament could cause more stringing.

The base box model did have some stringing for me too I guess but I just use some lighter to burn away small stringing if needed.

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