Amiga 500 Alt/Amiga Keycap 3D Printer Model

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Summary

I needed a left Amiga keycap for my Amiga 500. Looking online, it seems hard to get real replacement keycaps, so I designed one.
It's not perfect, but it functions well as a keycap as far as fit is concerned. I patterned it after one of the Alt keys. They're the same size, so this can be used for either type of key.

I printed this in ABS, so it's somewhat tuned for typical ABS shrinkage. I used ABS because I believe it would be less brittle than PLA, my only other option.

You should orient it so the flat surface of the keycap is down against the build plate. Since that surface has an angle, you'll probably need to tell your slicer to drop that surface flat against the build plate. This is easy to do in Cura, I'm not sure about other slicers.

I haven't used it long enough to know if it holds up to normal use without snapping off, so use this at your own risk.

I may update this at a later date to get it more correct. It appears that the top of the keycap needs to be shifted slighly forward to match the angles on a real key better.

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