Flushimal - Teddy Bear

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Flushimal - Teddy Bear

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Flush version - 0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 50% rectilinear infill
Flush version - 0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 50% rectilinear infill
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1.8 h
2 plates

Pre-Painted - 0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 15% infill
Pre-Painted - 0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 15% infill
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4.6 h
2 plates

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Here is the first of what I'm calling Flushimals - cute animal prints that can be used to soak up flush material on other multi-color prints and turned into useful keychains and/or magnets. I plan on creating many more in this line. If you have any suggestions for something you'd like to see, drop me a not.

 

This teddy bear is a horizontal Flushimal, great for multi-color prints that are not very tall as they can soak up a lot of waste material if needed. Very useful for printing animal minis, small dragons, coasters, or other prints that are under 16-17mm tall.

 

To use for soaking up waste just add one or more of these to your plate, set to flush options under “Other” to “Flush into this object”, then set the sparse infill settings under “Strength”.

 

A good starting point is anywhere from 35-50%, Rectilinear. You can adjust the infill % depending on how your plate slices. If there's still a significant amount of purge material you can increase the % all the way up to 100, or if you are close to 0% you can try dropping the infill percent until you find a good balance. If, even at 100% there is still a significant amount of purge, try adding more Flushimals.

 

On the plate shown in the profile screenshots I managed to get my flush down to under 1g with 2 x 50% Flushimal bears.

 

The magnet version is intended for 18x5mm magnets (because that's what I had) and they should stick out about 1mm from the back. I made the hole slightly larger to allow for tolerances so you'll likely need to use a bit of glue to make sure it's secure. You can resize the cylinder in the slicer to use larger or smaller magnets, but this piece may be quite heavy depending on your infill percentage so make sure the magnets are strong enough.

 

I am allowing commercial use of this print because I hope people will adopt the idea of using flush objects to reduce overall plastic waste. Please be sure to credit me if you do, however (see license).

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I love how this look, did you made this model to fit the flexi on the photo so the color layers fits the different parts of the model? or do you color this model as well to have specific part with specific colors and just flush I. the infill?
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Neither actually. This is just how it happened to come out with this particular model. I did go back and paint the eyes and nose afterwards though. I did deliberately design different features to stand out on separate layers though to make it more likely you'll have something turn out like these ones did. I created another Flushimal last night and that first print with it is due to be completed in about an hour. If it matches how it showed in the slicer preview it should also come out looking pretty great.
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Brilliant thinking to make dedicated models for flush material use.
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