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Any idea of what scale you want to do these at? Personally I'd want to try about 2 modules by 2 modules (which I think would be a good scale) but perhaps it would be better larger or smaller.

I wasn't planning on having it LEGO-scale, just because of how weird the shapes are.

 

However, that does give me an interesting idea that I may try later.

I actually just printed one of those myself, heh. Good luck and have fun with it! One thing to remember is that whenever you put down plastic, there needs to be something underneath it, be it the printer table or just more plastic. If you print plastic out over air, and it looks like that might happen in several places on the cube, the plastic will just fall down to whatever's beneath it when it's printed and you'll have a tangled mess of filament instead of a Nuva Cube.

LEGO scale might actually be somewhat convenient, since one LEGO module is eight millimeters and the Nuva Cube is an eight by eight cube. If you use millimeters as your base unit then no matter what size you make the smallest surfaces, the cube as a whole will be measurable in LEGO modules.

 

I actually just printed one of those myself, heh. Good luck and have fun with it! One thing to remember is that whenever you put down plastic, there needs to be something underneath it, be it the printer table or just more plastic. If you print plastic out over air, and it looks like that might happen in several places on the cube, the plastic will just fall down to whatever's beneath it when it's printed and you'll have a tangled mess of filament instead of a Nuva Cube.

I'm not sure if this is done ever, but is it possible for 3D printers to print multiple materials, so it could alternate between plastic and some kind of softer wax that you could scrape away at the end? Seems to me like that'd be a no-brainer for this kind of technology, but maybe it's not really feasible since you're dealing with heated materials.

LEGO scale might actually be somewhat convenient, since one LEGO module is eight millimeters and the Nuva Cube is an eight by eight cube. If you use millimeters as your base unit then no matter what size you make the smallest surfaces, the cube as a whole will be measurable in LEGO modules.

 

I actually just printed one of those myself, heh. Good luck and have fun with it! One thing to remember is that whenever you put down plastic, there needs to be something underneath it, be it the printer table or just more plastic. If you print plastic out over air, and it looks like that might happen in several places on the cube, the plastic will just fall down to whatever's beneath it when it's printed and you'll have a tangled mess of filament instead of a Nuva Cube.

I'm not sure if this is done ever, but is it possible for 3D printers to print multiple materials, so it could alternate between plastic and some kind of softer wax that you could scrape away at the end? Seems to me like that'd be a no-brainer for this kind of technology, but maybe it's not really feasible since you're dealing with heated materials.

 

My roommate told me that some printers do do that, but I don't now if the version he made is one that can.  I'm waiting to hear back from him about that.

 

Also yeah the scale might work, but I'd want to tweak the design a bit first.  This model is meant for larger scale since I made it hollow on the inside for lighting or something.  Should be an easy enough conversion though.