Soft Tape Measure Spool - Print in Place by Scott711

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X1 Carbon

P1S

P1P

X1E

A1 mini

0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 15% infill

Designer

36 min

1 plate

4.9(170)

A1 Mini Compatible Profile

43 min

1 plate

4.9(27)

0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 15% infill with eyelet modifier

37 min

1 plate

5.0(2)

PLA 0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 15% infill

42 min

1 plate

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Description

This is a print in place winding spool I designed for standard length soft measuring tapes (60" / 150 cm) having width up to ¾" / 20 mm. If you need a version for a 120"/300cm soft tape, you can find it here.

After removing from the print bed, use a little force to free the spool from some small support, and run the spool back and forth a few time to smooth it out. Putting a few drops of light oil in the top center hole will make it run even smoother. I've printed in both matte and basic PLA with good success.

Do not use supports. You may get a floating regions warning from your slicer telling you to use supports or to reorient, but print the model bottom side down without supports. I also suggest using 0.2mm layer height if you choose not to print with the uploaded .3mf print profile.

Comment & Rating (210)

@nikkolaus

Print Profile

0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 15% infill

The first one I printed I wanted in a beautiful metallic blue, so I used some silk PLA from CC3D. After printing it shattered apart in my hands like soggy crackers. Inspecting the center pieces I saw it wasn't held together by very much infill material.. I changed my sparse infill to 3D Honeycomb and changed to a PLA+ filament, and got better results. Not sure if it was the infill change or the filament change, but now it works wonderfully, though a bit squeaky. Youtube.com/shorts/yfh9hPrnSGE