This lamp was designed to allow people to try various techniques when printing Translucent PETG filaments. The shade and lamp body parts are easily interchangeable allowing the light to have a variety of styles and is a great platform for remixes.
Bambu Wiki for printing Translucent PETG : https://wiki.bambulab.com/en/knowledge-sharing/transparent-petg
As I was designing this lamp, I tried to design it to allow for modularity and allow for creative modifications. I would love to see other peoples ideas and how they paint the prints. For all the “stained-glass” parts I included them unpainted so that I do not stifle any creativity. There is a section below where I will outline some ideas that I had but didn't have time to design or print.
Filament: PETG Basic, PETG Translucent
I used all Bambu filaments other then some prototyped pieces when I ran out of black PETG and Bambu was on break so I used Black Overture PETG.
Before printing, I suggest you use some sort of tolerance test to make sure you can print your PETG to 0.1 mm tolerances with no problem. I was able to do this test without any special settings or changes to my X1 Carbon. Many parts are friction fit to allow for interchangeability.
A majority of the pieces are rather trivial and designed to be printed without support. With that said, the shade pillar sides will test your overhang printing abilities. I used minimal tree supports to keep the print upright, but allow greater airflow from the part fan. If you do not slow printing speed down and possibly increase your part fan on overhangs, the overhangs might not cool fast enough and create an ugly print. I will say in all my testing, I always came out with useable parts, but not always pretty parts.
I hate long videos, feel free to watch this at 2x speed :)
As with any project with a deadline, compromises have to be made. As I went I realized there were areas for improvement or experimentation. I tried to note as many as possible, but this list might grow as I come upon ideas.
I would like to release a version 2 at some point to include these ideas, but would also love to see others join in and share their ideas. Whether they are for better functionality, or a different aesthetic.
The following dimensions should help when designing custom panels for the shade and body side panels. The side panels simply slide in, but the shade does have bumps that allow the pieces to snap together. While you could omit these and glue the shade together, you wont be able to every change the shade panels without printing a whole new shade.
In the raw files, I uploaded STL, STEP, and 3MF files of a plain shade side. There is a back and a front. How I designed my shade was I drew the design on the shade front, extruded to cut holes in the front. Then I projected the sketch to the back color piece, offset the sketch by 0.1 mm, then extruded forward. If this explanation doesn't help, comment and I will make a quick video.
I thought this approach was easier for this piece than providing dimms.
If you prefer not to do a 2 piece approach, I also uploaded the files for a single piece that you can do whatever you want with. It is also in the raw files.
I hope these dimms help expedite any remixes. I can do some raw files with no design like above if requested, I just figured since it is simple shapes this might be easier to start from.