A dog and his bone

On what do you place man’s best friend when you make him? Well very simple, on his most favorite food and plaything! A bone. The plan came to me to make a border collie. I started from a scan I made, I have a pretty good scanner, accuracy 0.02 mm, what is a lot more than the 3D Printers on the market today, which is 0.15, some even 0.25.

The first attempt was a disaster! The dog broke away from my daughter, and the complete tail was missing. But the scan I had so far was damn good, so I saved it anyway. The day after, we tried again, but only that part which was missing. After struggling with the dog, my daughter managed to keep him still for a while, so I was able to finish after all.

After the dog broke away

I need to tell, both the daughter and the dog are well, after this scary adventure with the scary machine! One thing I can tell you for sure is that dogs don’t like to be scanned! LOL

The most difficult part was the dark ear, as 3D scanners don’t work so well on dark, and especially black surfaces.

Now I had a real-life scan, on 100% so after some cleaning, I had to scale it down to a printable size. This made the accuracy of the model even higher.

Needless to say, this model needs support. But don’t worry, I did not use support material, and it came off in no time. The first print was a failure though, because the peg on the back fall down. So, I had to restart, this time using a lot of brim. But for makers world I think it was a bit risky, so I designed e bone shaped platform in Fusion 360.

Bone shaped platform. Prototype

After all of this I started painting it in Bambu lab Slicer. With this as a result.

For all dog lovers, and specially Border Collie owners, the model is yours to take, just not for commercial purposes! If it needs to be sold, it was my work after all!