![]() What followed can be described as one metric butt ton of elbow grease as I tried to get the thing to fit together with continuous, smooth surfaces. 3D Printed Sax-a-Boom Body Held Together With Tape Printing Body Pieces on a Modified Monoprice Maker Select V2Īfter printing the main pieces in PLA, I was left with a crude shell for the body. I also ended up modeling the buttons and volume knob myself to account for mechanically attaching them to switches and a potentiometer. Unfortunately the mesh was far from being optimized for 3D printing, so I spent some time breaking it down into components, shelling it, and splitting the shell components into even smaller pieces that could fit in my 3D printer’s limited build volume. ![]() Definitely better than I could have done in that amount of time. It was as good as I could possibly expect from someone referencing a few limited photos of the thing. $20 and a few days later, the amazing delivered a beautiful mesh that approximated a Sax-a-Boom. I sent a few Sax-a-Boom images to a Fiverr user who specializes in 3D modeling. So I pulled out the big guns and went where all futuristic humans and bipedal androids go for their affordable creative-content-for-hire needs: Fiverr. ![]() I’ve made a lot of functional parts in Fusion 360, but I’m not great at modeling organic shapes with a lot of curves, and the Sax-a-Boom's exterior is almost entirely made of curves - sexy, nostalgic, 90’s-era, in-your-face colorful curves. Now, I want to give huge credit where due and admit that I did not create the 3D model here. That's essentially what I did, but as anyone who's done this kind of thing knows, the devil’s always in the details.
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