Balancing Bird 3D Printer Model

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License: CC BY
File formats: blend,stl
Download type: zip
Size:16.8MB

The file 'Balancing Bird 3D Printer Model' is (blend,stl) file type, size is 16.8MB.

Summary

Inspired by the balancing bird toy I remember as a kid, I designed a sleeker and leaner version. The trick works because the center of gravity of the shape is below the nose, but this means it's susceptible to changes with infill percentage. Low infill will have a slight nose-down attitude. I've found that meshmixer supports seem to work for printing with minor cleanup afterwards. Note that the model with supports is scaled up 8x to print at a reasonable size.

Bird.blend 439.5KB
Bird.stl 19.1MB
Bird_Supported.stl 19.2MB