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So, I've been experimenting with making a little pick holder for guitar picks.
I liked the design, but it was a little light, and the picks came out kind of easy. So I added some little flexible friction tabs inside each pick holder, and I also created a hidden pocket to hold a rare earth magnet.
I inserted some gcode into the print to pause the print at the start of a particular layer and pull the extruder away.
At that point I stuck the magnet in the pocket, then told it to resume printing. Worked like a charm.
In the pictures, I've hidden the outside skin in the sketchup picture so you can see the insides of the pickholder. You can see the friction tab and the magnet pocket
In the Simplify 3d preview, you can see the pocket. I scrolled through the layers till I could see what the last open layer for the pocket was, so I could enter that into the post processing script area in S3d.
Once I found out what that last layer was, I was able to have the post processing terminal command do a search and replace in the gcode to add a pause command and to move the extruder head out of the way. At the next layer, the extruder will pickup exactly where it should.
Here's the final object hanging upside down with the picks securely held by the friction tabs.
I liked the design, but it was a little light, and the picks came out kind of easy. So I added some little flexible friction tabs inside each pick holder, and I also created a hidden pocket to hold a rare earth magnet.
I inserted some gcode into the print to pause the print at the start of a particular layer and pull the extruder away.
At that point I stuck the magnet in the pocket, then told it to resume printing. Worked like a charm.
In the pictures, I've hidden the outside skin in the sketchup picture so you can see the insides of the pickholder. You can see the friction tab and the magnet pocket
In the Simplify 3d preview, you can see the pocket. I scrolled through the layers till I could see what the last open layer for the pocket was, so I could enter that into the post processing script area in S3d.
Once I found out what that last layer was, I was able to have the post processing terminal command do a search and replace in the gcode to add a pause command and to move the extruder head out of the way. At the next layer, the extruder will pickup exactly where it should.
Here's the final object hanging upside down with the picks securely held by the friction tabs.