A fine Christmas ball.
There are two ways of making it:
The first way is either mechanizing the leafs with a 0.5mm metal sheet with the DXF (I made them with aluminum) or print them flat, using the flat versions of the leaf. Then give them the shape using the molds; the "corrected" version for the metal leafs, which compensates for the metal bending, and the normal version for the plastic leafs, a hot air gun and some patience.
The second way is to print the 1mm plastic version of it, only possible with a SLS printer and use the 1mm body to assemble them.
Then the leafs can be glued to the body using a good glue, I used cyanocrylate.
The ball is a little bit delicate and hard to assemble, but the result is well worth it.
I also designed a case to protect it during boring, non-Christmas time.
| body.stl | 1.6MB | |
| body_05mm.stl | 1.6MB | |
| body_1mm.stl | 1.6MB | |
| case_bottom.stl | 804.8KB | |
| case_top.stl | 579.4KB | |
| leaf_holly.dxf | 48.5KB | |
| leaf_holly.stl | 247.9KB | |
| leaf_holly_flat.stl | 187.6KB | |
| leaf_reindeer.dxf | 64.5KB | |
| leaf_reindeer.stl | 235.5KB | |
| leaf_reindeer_flat.stl | 153.7KB | |
| leaf_snowflake.dxf | 76.4KB | |
| leaf_snowflake.stl | 148.5KB | |
| leaf_snowflake_flat.stl | 104.5KB | |
| mold.stl | 65.7KB | |
| mold_corrected_recovery.stl | 65.1KB |
