Modern Elements 3D Printer Model

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License: CC BY-NC-SA
File formats: scad,stl
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Summary

Another [ C60 buckyball / truncated icosahedron / soccer-ball ] lamp.

The facets on this one are designed to shade the lamp bulb only when viewed directly, and otherwise be transparent to the inside of the lamp. This effect was generally successful but less impressive than I expected.

The first design ( modern_pentagon, modern_hexagon, baffel ) had these flaws :
-- weak, flexible walls made hinges hard to manage
-- impossibly tight hinges ( required removing a lot of plastic )
-- weak supports for the light-diffusing inner panels;

The lamp pictured was built with the original design. However, I updated the design ( modern_pentagon_revised, modern_hexagon_revised, baffel_revised ) to attempt to correct these three problems.

I would print and test the hinge fit for the revised pieces, I expect them to be stronger and easier to work with, but there may be unexpected problems. You can also tweak the parameters in the .scad file yourself.

baffel.scad 4.6KB
baffel_revised.scad 4.9KB
modern_hexagon.stl 2.1MB
modern_hexagon_revised.stl 2.0MB
modern_pentagon.stl 1.7MB
modern_pentagon_revised.stl 1.7MB